Salomon Aaron
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And I said, listen, this has just been found.
This is what's been found so far.
This is how much the price is to the landowner.
This is how much I envision it will cost to prep.
You need to pre-buy this if you want this specimen, because by the time this is acquired and prepped and complete, I mean, we're competing against the kind of
sovereign wealth fund or kind of petrodollar estates, tech.
It's just much more difficult.
Sotheby's, Christie's, we'll never be able to get a price and it might not be able to acquire it.
So that's what people have to do to buy really great dinosaur fossils, usually.
It's unusual for someone to be able to kind of walk in and buy something amazing at a kind of reasonable price.
So as you could probably guess, it's very tech science heavy.
So we have clients of all ages, but what's interesting is the dinosaur fossil clients are much younger than kind of the antiquities or Islamic art clients in general.
It's a younger demographic and also really skewed towards tech and science.
It's a lot of people that grew up with Jurassic Park that find it amazing.
I would also add that our gallery is very museum-centric.
So we try where possible to work with museums.
So often, for example, where we can and we always have, we give museums first rights on whatever we find.
We consult museum scholars and curators.
And also we've had, where possible, actually what we're doing in the dinosaur space is we are introducing private collectors to museums.