I'd add that a lot of people we get inquiries from are trying to make a
quick buck on things they've purchased on eBay or at yard sales, often
our photography prints. Charging for research time is a good filter.
Louisa Watrous
Intellectual Property Manager
MYSTIC SEAPORT
The Museum of America and the Sea
75 Greenmanville Ave., P.O. Box 6000
Mystic, CT 06355 USA
T: 860-572-5383, ext. 4703
F: 860-572-5328
www.mysticseaport.org
www.rosenfeldcollection.org
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From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Daniel Ackermann
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 10:53 AM
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Requests for appraisals, authentication, and
research
Dear All,
Like many of you I'm sure, we receive a large number of emails, phone
calls,
and walk-ins with questions for our curators that revolve around
appraisals,
authentications, and generally doing free research. Not only can these
requests eat up staff time, but they also pose ethical and legal issues.
I'm working on some standard language (and a standard policy) we can use
in
handling these requests. Our library - and our research center with
files
on 20,000+ documented objects and 80,000+ craftsmen - is open to the
public,
so that will be part of any standard language. But does anyone out
there
have suggestions, or experience, with creating these sort of documents?
All the best,
Daniel K. Ackermann
Associate Curator
MESDA and The Old Salem Toy Museum Collections
Old Salem Museums & Gardens
924 South Main Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27108
(Tel) 336-721-7372 (Fax) 336-721-7367
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www.oldsalem.org
Please note our new mailing address: 924 South Main Street,
Winston-Salem,
NC 27108
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