MADAM – Here’s an insight into my week. Tuesday: I receive my copy of Antiques Trade Gazette. I read it fairly thoroughly, often starting with Bid Barometer. Then with trepidation I move onto Letters, this week almost entirely devoted to ivory.
Wednesday: draft letter to ATG. I hope it’s relevant to what I have just read. Thursday: tear up letter in agony, resignation or depression.
Agony, because in all the views expressed and questions raised in ATG, we are left none the wiser on the BAMF’s definition of ‘museum-quality ivory’, ‘cultural and historical merit’ and so on (ATG No 2324).