It could be for a few reasons including authenticity, but we tend to sometimes forget could it be a provenance or " ownership trail" issue ( that is from a questionable background, polite way of saying stolen). The problem with the old stuff is not just authenticity, since there are so few samples of some of this stuff who can truly say with 100% certainty what is real and what is not; but also with the chain of ownership, provenance or the sourcing of such items.
I hope we do find out the reasons.
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