Excellent post Grant.I remember Bob Alexanders collection being sold I looked at photos he carried on him at the Great Western just before.I think you are right on spot with your opinion.I know of one collection that was just sold off and some pieces were got reasonable. The more rare items well I think one will just hope fate is on thier side when the time comes.
Fred you have good reason to be suspicious and you have to be very careful choosing something on a dealer site these days.Many collectors fail to take a close enough look for problems. Ive seen tunics shown on the forum that got heaps of praise from the members but when they were sent to me for inspection they had all kinds of tampering evident that I was a bit puzzled that the owners missed it or were unable to detect it.
