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Old 9th March 2018, 03:12 PM   #8
Athanase
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Originally Posted by Kubur
the best deals come from wrong identifications!!
Yes but often we do not find them because we do not search for keywords related to the bad identification.
And for fossils, misidentification will inflate the price if we put the name of another animal more "sexy" (the mammoth attracts more than the hippo ....) because often the buyers have only very little knowledge in paleontology, they just want beautiful fossils because cabinets of curiosities are in vogue!
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