I think he touches on this topic in the Introduction of his book.  He utilizes pottery collections in the hands of Florida shipwreck salvors (treasure hunters) for a lot of his work.  


Marken, Mitchell W.
1994	Pottery from Spanish Shipwrecks 1500-1800.  University Press of Florida.  


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Subject: Re: Working with looters readings?


Hello everyone, 
I am in the process of working out the computer bugs that are keeping me from 
posting "Passionate Possession: the Formation of Private Collections" on 
Academia.ed.  But if you are interested in reading it, and it is an older (1996) 
take on the issue, contact me directly and I will send you a copy. 
Margie (Marjorie) Akin, 
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-------- Original message --------
From: Smoke <[log in to unmask]> 
Date: 02/15/2015  10:17 AM  (GMT-08:00) 
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Subject: Re: Working with looters readings? 
 
Tom King, as can many other archaeologists, can be contacted via his
page on Academia.ed.

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 5:36 AM, David S. Rotenstein
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> Tom King has written many things over the years on working with looters and 
avocational archaeologists — I suggest contacting him. If you don’t have his 
email address, message me privately. Margie Akin wrote a paper in 1996 titled, 
"Passionate Possession: the Formation of Private Collections.” And, I wrote a 
grad school paper in 1988 that I later stuck on my website: http://historian4hire.net/relics/relics.htm 
<http://historian4hire.net/relics/relics.htm>. It’s a graduate student paper and 
it’s not what I would write today but it has some good sources in the 
bibliography and some pretty pictures.
>
> David Rotenstein
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