Why not have some sort of clearing house where each arch. graduate student
could receive a collection to help explain to their family what they went to
school for. This way you could track the locations of the collections and
they would still be held by people in the "profession."
Neal Hitch
Ohio Historical Society
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> I have long heard that a museum in Egypt sells Roman oil lamps, that were
> also mass produced, for the same reasons discussed. Likewise poor
> quality Roman coins
> are also sold in museum shops but weather they come from their own
> collections or archaeological investigaions I don't know.
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