Antiquese Roadshow

Borked Pseudo Mailed wrote:

> The world's biggest idiot, Bobbie Finnan opened his piehole and
> blathered:
>
>>I was watching Antiques Roadshow (love that show!) recently and
>> a woman with a rare old LDS book was getting it evaluated by a
> so-called "expert".
>>The book was over 150 years old and in fragile condition.
>>The lout who was appraising it was putting his greasy hands all
>> over it, treating it a bit roughly before telling her it was worth tens
>> of thousands of dollars. Would it have killed that imbecile to put
>> gloves on before mauling such a rare and valuable book?
>>Sometimes I wonder about the qualifications of these so-called
>>"experts".

http://www.betweenthecovers.com/btc/articles/49
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2006/sep/04/highereducation.uk

Check the Exlibris archives for some interesting discussion on this
topic:

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibris/index.shtml

Personally, I've handled hundreds of books that are at least twice as
old as the one in question and never worn gloves. That applies to
books in antiquarian bookshops, books I own, books in private
collections and books in research libraries. As far as I can recall,
have I ever even seen anyone wear gloves when handling material of
this kind.

Cheers!

John
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"jyamamo" wrote in message

> Borked Pseudo Mailed wrote:
>
>> The world's biggest idiot, Bobbie Finnan opened his piehole and
>> blathered:
>>
>>>I was watching Antiques Roadshow (love that show!) recently and
>>> a woman with a rare old LDS book was getting it evaluated by a
>> so-called "expert".
>>>The book was over 150 years old and in fragile condition.
>>>The lout who was appraising it was putting his greasy hands all
>>> over it, treating it a bit roughly before telling her it was worth tens
>>> of thousands of dollars. Would it have killed that imbecile to put
>>> gloves on before mauling such a rare and valuable book?
>>>Sometimes I wonder about the qualifications of these so-called
>>>"experts".
>
> http://www.betweenthecovers.com/btc/articles/49
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2006/sep/04/highereducation.uk
>
> Check the Exlibris archives for some interesting discussion on this
> topic:
>
> http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibris/index.shtml
>
> Personally, I've handled hundreds of books that are at least twice as
> old as the one in question and never worn gloves. That applies to
> books in antiquarian bookshops, books I own, books in private
> collections and books in research libraries. As far as I can recall,
> have I ever even seen anyone wear gloves when handling material of
> this kind.
>
> Cheers!
>
> John

That "lout" (Ken Sanders) is one of the (if not THE) foremost
experts on historical Mormon documentation.

What the complainer doesn't see, is the off-screen preparation
that Sanders took.
Kris
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