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Salomon Aaron

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328 total appearances

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Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

And these are all numbers which are unheard of in the dinosaur fossil market.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

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.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

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.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

So, yeah, that kind of gives you a bit of context about the complete change in pricing structure in this industry.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

So yeah.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

Yeah.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

All good questions.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

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.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

Okay.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

But there are loads of sellers for, for the cheaper part of cheaper kind of smaller bones.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

And that's a huge market.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

You can go to mineral shows and you can buy teeth in the hundreds of dollars.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

You can also buy very much cheaper if you buy non-American dinosaur fossils.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for 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.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

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.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

I'd rather show a fragment.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

But yeah, look, I can tell you, I personally have, I have a Triceratops horn at home.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

I have a couple of T-Rex teeth at home.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

So I think they're cool.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

It looks nice.