Salomon Aaron

Maybe I'll get it.

Yeah, but we're not sure which of the two it is.

So we kind of are cautious.

Yes.

And no, because this is the thing about the market maturing is that strictly speaking, you know, private collectors should be advised and they should be kind of not acquiring things unless they know for certain that they've been assembled correctly.

They are original to the piece and you know, you aren't taking composites.

But in recent years, because the market has kind of had so much demand, there are people who have acquired pieces that maybe should not have done or paid prices they shouldn't have done.

But that's something I expect to decrease with time because of the increased scrutiny that should be coming into these fossils as a result of the higher numbers.

Yeah.

And then the other thing to say is that it's very competitive.

If you want to buy a great dinosaur fossil today, you can't just go down a promenade of galleries and you can walk in and say, oh, I'd like to buy a T-Rex.

Could you show me what's behind the curtain?

that doesn't exist.

I mean, if you want to buy an amazing dinosaur fossil, you know, you're looking at having to kind of pre-buy it, pre-acquire it prior to prepping.

So what we do with clients, for example, is a client recently, I sold an amazing complete skeleton.

It's either a Marchosaurus or it's a completely unknown new species to a private collector who wanted to have it go on public display.

So it's being loaned to the Colchester Museum in the UK.

And it's kind of

something that this private collector wants to be studied and he wants it to be kind of made available to science and i don't know if his plan at some point will be to donate it or to what his plans is but he's a very kind of philanthropic person but in that scenario what we had to do was i met the client years ago we agreed on the strategy which was to buy an amazing complete skeleton

Then I consistently sent the client kind of propositions of specimens as they were being discovered.