Salomon Aaron

Yeah, absolutely.

To buy a dinosaur puzzle.

Case dependent.

But what we really want to do is we try wherever possible to arrange independent third party consultants or paleontologists or specialists to look at the specimen before we offer it for sale.

and ideally a paleontologist who specializes in that particular species.

So, for example, we recently sold a Jurassic skeleton, which was 150 million years old, and we reached out to the best person in that category and said, could you just review the images?

What does this look like to you?

And what we also do is arrange conservators to

kind of, well, from the art background to come and check that the bones that we are assembling are reflected accurately on a bone map.

And that's something else that I think we'll probably get into is, you know, how do you know what you're buying?

Because dinosaur fossils aren't discovered completely intact, virtually never discovered completely intact.

They are assembled from what is discovered and then that's mixed in with resin parts or 3D printed bones to complete the specimen, et cetera.

And so...

Anybody buying a dinosaur fossil needs to know what they're buying.

And that's something, you know, again, the market is developing over the past 15, 20 years because it used to be that, well, actually it still is today, that if you walk into a fossil shop and you say, well, how much of what I'm buying is real bone and how much of it is fake bone, they'll show you a kind of a color book, a drawing of all the bones.

and if an element of that bone is present they'll say oh yeah we have you know we have the fibula we have the vertebrae we have whatever it is we have this claw and actually it could be very misleading because you might actually have five percent of that particular bone and as a result a item that looks very complete on a bone map is actually incredibly incomplete

So not only do we kind of insist on having paleontologist specialists check that, you know, this is the specimen we're describing, it's being attributed correctly, but also we'll have conservators actually draw up a bone map, which as a gallery we've designed to show what percentage of each bone is there.

And that's one of the kind of issues with the dinosaur fossil market is that, you know, somebody could very easily snap a bone in half and kind of double its quote unquote completeness in that bone map kind of process.

And so when you asked your first question was, you know, how does this compare or contrast with other areas of the art market?

there isn't the same depth of kind of art consultants, advisory firms, et cetera, that are increasing the pressure on vendors to try to keep all kind of, for example, art fairs.