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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
--quality of faked objects is, has not been very great, up until fairly recent times, but nowadays, there are tremendous, strides have been made among fakers to, in their ability to make acceptable objects, which are at least acceptable up to the time they're sold.
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The, but in my position at the museum, I've been greatly involved with this collection of faking and probably have seen more objects and have developed an interest in this more than anyone else in the country, I think.
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Not that I, not that I know all the answers, but I know most of the answers in regard to the authenticity question in Middle American objects.
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One thing about fakes is, they're made in certain shops, and there are artists in these shops who begin working in a certain style and a faker is an artist and he works in his own style, and once you get to know these styles you can recognize them anywhere.
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So, it's a matter of just having enough experience with these kinds of things to be able to pick them out.
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I don't know that this is, it's particularly important to do this, but it certainly it saves a lot of time for museums all over the world.
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It will, in some cases, I think, be very important to scholarship and in future art historical and archaeological studies in an area like Middle America, because it's a, it's a basic and one of the most important things to know about the first
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