Hopefully I may respond to your letter slightly off-track "marketing artifacts" without breaking the rules. I am new on-line as I have a 16,000 s.f. showroom in the Palm Springs area that sells "decor items" which has evolved into art, which lately, has evolved into antiquities and artifacts. The demographics of this area affords my clientele to obtain vast collections (sometimes good) which apparantely does not necessarily mean they wish to keep all of it when they retire in their senior years. These pieces have been floating to me quitre regularly, in part, because I simply enjoy experiencing small parts of time and space which so varied from my own. I reached for the internet as a tool to become "smarter" , if that can be done in such a short time, and then realized that without selling a piece now and again, I may not continue to see them. . . From as learned as the opinions available to me, it is my understanding that pieces are not only extrodanary in the context of my limited exposure, but indeed pieces that many museums may well be inerested in (providing on budget). I am simply looking for the most tasteful, proper, and effective means by which to let people who are interested -- be informed as to the unusual collections I have access to -- should you have any insight , your help is greatly appreciated. Charissa Lee 71-550 Highway 111 Rancho Mirage, California 92270 619/568-4627 619/568-3148 FAX [log in to unmask]