<HTML>Yeah, that's how it reads to me, too.
Looks like financial interests prevailed, and the pieces were probably sold off seperatelly to individuals... or, if the daughter's account is true, the father bought a bunch of replicas, thinking they were real.
It wouldn't have bothered me so much if I knew they were copying pieces and then selling them... at least they would be similar to the actual pieces. But if they were fake to begin with, then the historical implications are completely lost.
I had some great soapstone statues carved in Honduras... they looks absolutely fabulous, and could have been a thousand years old. They cost 25 cents, and were bought from a person carving them right there on the side of the road.
Go figure.
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