> Yes, but other people doing the right thing won't impact on his
business...

Conducting my business is also "doing the right thing." I'm an ethical
dealer, and have never acquired an antiquity from the UK that was not
provenanced.

Dave Welsh
Unidroit-L Listowner
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Unidroit-L
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Subject: Re: [BRITARCH] Archaeology's limits thread, etc


Nigel Swift wrote:
> Dave Welsh said -
> "No one has a right to require me to close my business, or to require 
> a collector to stop collecting, in order to fully comply with PAS 
> advice"
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> PAS would be astonished to hear that fully complying with their advice 
> would do that! Principally because they know it is nonsense. Do 
> British collectors who fully comply (lots of them) have difficulty? Of 
> course not. As for you saying PAS advice has no legal standing in the 
> USA where your business is conducted, I have news for you Mr Welsh, it 
> has no legal standing in Britain either! Yet lots of people manage to 
> fully comply with it simply because they know it's the right thing to 
> do.

Yes, but other people doing the right thing won't impact on his business...

John Briggs