In 2005 Arielle Kozloff suggested that the "annual sales of antiquities ... amount to somewhere between $100 million and $200 million at this time" (in Kate Fitz Gibbon, Who Owns the Past?). Kozloff is in a position to know: "From 1997 to 2001 she was vice president of the Merrin Gallery, and she is now a private consultant to museums and collectors".
Peter Watson has reported that Robin Symes (and partner Christo Michaelidis) held 17,000 objects valued (by Symes) at US$250 million (in Neil Brodie et al., Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and the Antiquities Trade (2006)).
The major auction houses in New York have sold over US$250 million worth of antiquities in the last ten years.
And what about the other dealers and galleries in New York and beyond?
Monday, August 20, 2007
The scale of the market
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For an estimate for antiquities looted from Bulgaria:
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2007/08/looting-in-bulgaria.html
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