Salomon Aaron
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And these are all numbers which are unheard of in the dinosaur fossil market.
So, and the issue is that a lot of these specimens are being either consigned by kind of primary dinosaur hunters or landowners to auction.
And then once they've kind of made this sale, it's very difficult for them to then sell something at the prior prices, you know, five, 10 years prior.
So, yeah, that kind of gives you a bit of context about the complete change in pricing structure in this industry.
All good questions.
I mean, we, so as a gallery, our business model is to deal in very few, but you know, the very best and not to sell composites and to sell fragments, but only when they're kind of, I think, aesthetic or beautiful or kind of historically interesting.
But there are loads of sellers for, for the cheaper part of cheaper kind of smaller bones.
And that's a huge market.
You can go to mineral shows and you can buy teeth in the hundreds of dollars.
You can also buy very much cheaper if you buy non-American dinosaur fossils.
And there are dealers that will sell composites and everybody will take a kind of commercial decision on whether to assemble something or sell it as a fragment.
I prefer where possible to kind of not over restore so that you don't look at something and say, I have a, you know, something which in bone mass or sorry, in mass is kind of 20% original 80% resin.
I'd rather show a fragment.
But yeah, look, I can tell you, I personally have, I have a Triceratops horn at home.
I have a couple of T-Rex teeth at home.
So I think they're cool.
It looks nice.