And I think you realize this; is that for my family (and probably for yours) we're not going to have letters our ancestors wrote show up in public auctions for thousands of dollars
I still think there is a tricky slope for auction Houses in so many ways; and how much does the AH has to do to make sure nothing is wrong. Do they have to have every item checked out by the FBI?
Rich
P.S. A good friend of mine back in my Jersey days bought a ton of gold/silver/jewerly in his store. And anything they were not sure about was reported to the Elmwood Park, NJ police and run through their system to make sure it was not stolen. And I believe that was NJ state law at that time.
Is the next step to have anything an auction house gets in checked out by the Feds?
Like I said; this is a real hidden problem