Paul Barford <[log in to unmask]> wrote (in <005c01c35061$6d66a880$320
a63d9@Standard>) about 'Artefacts removed from context', on Tue, 22 Jul
2003:
>John Woodgate writes:
>> Yes: for the general public, replicas should be quite acceptable.
>
>Well, the fact that they are not is of course demonstrated by this whole
>dispute in the first place. If the replicas were just as likely to generate
>tourist income, one of the parties in both disputes would have settled for
>good copies years ago.

 I think the motives are more atavistic on both sides.
'It's part of our heritage and is stolen property' versus 'What we have,
we hold.'
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