From: "John Beamish" 

There's nothing for sale.  You can come to the ROM and view it.  And, as I
said, I can't remember the exact phrase and I even put "an
antiquity" in quotes.  Sheesh.


"Gene McAloon"  wrote in message
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> On Sat, 8 May 2004 22:25:58 -0400, "John Beamish"

> wrote:
>
> >You could move from the hypothetical to the real:
> >
> >The Royal Ontario Museum has a plaster cast of part of the carvings on an
> >ancient building (Greek, I think).  Anyway, the original carving (it's
> >outdoors) is now seriously damaged from the elements.  The plaster
carving
> >is now considered to be (and I can't remember the exact phrase) "an
> >antiquity".
>
> Whoever made that decision is an idiot. There is no other way to put it.
Let
> them try selling that copy they call an antiquity to another museum or a
private
> collector. They will find out soon enough that it is not an antiquity
under
> anyone's definition of that term. If they nonetheless managed to sell as
an
> "antiquity," they would be guilty of fraud.

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