Dear all
Martin makes a very valid point that the issue of the monetary value of documents is something we ought to be discussing and I'm very happy to summarise any responses we receive for the list, suitably anonymised of course. I'd have offered in my original message but the issue we're dealing with is rather urgent and it completely slipped my mind in my haste to ask for help! It's unfortunate but probably typical that it's arisen on a Friday afternoon, but I hope we can get some discussion going as I think we'll all be facing this sort of issue more and more often.
Best wishes for the weekend!
Karen Cooke
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Archivists, conservators and records managers.
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Taylor Martin
> Sent: 18 August 2006 15:03
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Antiques Roadshow and valuations of documents
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>
> Dear All
>
> I see that Karen has asked colleagues to reply off list - but
> the valuations
> of documents on programmes such as the Antiques Roadshow is
> an issue which
> impacts on all of us.
>
> Increasingly records are seen, not as part of our common
> heritage, but as
> commodities with a monetary value which can be realised via e-bay.
>
> On two separate occasions in the last year, records of a Hull
> children's
> hospital (other records of which were deposited with us as
> public records)
> have been sold on e-bay. If we had wanted these items, we
> would have had to
> bid for them - and indeed did so, but were unsuccessful. A
> county record
> office of my acquaintance sought advice from TNA when a collection of
> manorial court rolls appeared for sale on e-bay. TNA's advice
> was apparently
> to bid for them.
>
> Valuations by Clive Farahar (the Roadshows antiquarian books
> expert) and his
> colleagues surely feed into the increasingly active on-line market in
> documents.
>
> Is this a good thing? Should we as a profession co-operate
> with Farahar and
> his ilk? By bidding for the volumes on e-bay was I ramping up
> prices in a
> market which, unchecked, will damage our mission to preserve
> our written
> heritage? Or is it safer not to rock any boats and remain
> invisible as a
> profession?
>
> I'm sorry in a way that this has come up on a Friday
> afternoon - discussions
> of professional issues shouldn't be regarded as a Friday afternoon
> irrelevance!
>
> Martin Taylor
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> Hull City Archives
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: COOKE, Karen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 18 August 2006 14:00
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> Subject: Antiques Roadshow and valuations of documents
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>
> Dear all
>
> We at Gloucestershire Archives would be very grateful if anyone with
> experience of dealing with TV programmes such as Antiques Roadshow (or
> similar) over valuations of documents, or anyone with
> policies for dealing
> with such things, could contact us as a matter of urgency.
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> With many thanks
>
> Karen Cooke
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