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Contemporary and modern translate as the same thing to many people and is going to complicate things for me as a seller. My understanding is that items dating to before 1950 can qualify as an antique. The high end tribal art shows require items to be over 50 years old to qualify as antique. Antique shops list items over 50 years in age as antiques. If I list my Venetian beads as modern it will imply that they are NEW. This is a real blow to me, this business is difficult enough as it is. When you asked for people's opinions on this subject the general opinion was that it would only complicate things, I'm at a loss to understand why you would push ahead with it. I believe it will only encourage more fraud, personally I do not want to list my beads as modern. An interesting thing to note is that the ethnographic art has an antique category of 100 years or more and all the new junk gets listed in that category. It didn't seem to change a thing as far as authenticity goes. Judy
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