I don´t know, when you have been to South-Morocco the last time and which kind of experience you have made in which way, but that picture, you try to create about Morocco and the Moroccans, is still wrong and affronting, as I said to your comment on 7/18/2006. If the only reason would be your $20-tea, just forget about, it was a joke anyway...
I don´t know, where you have been, seeing masses of tourists? Agadir is the center of tourism, and if you start there to a trip to Marrakech, then Tafraout and maybe Guelmim after, it´s possible, you will see always the same tourists there, that you have seen at the beach from Agadir. They bring them around by busses ...If you don´t go to this places on weekends, if you walk through the souks of Marrakech on a thursday night in March, you don´t need both hands to count the tourists you will meet. Latest since that Sept. 11 tourism brake down and even the big Hotels at Agadir have problems. I have made trips through this country, where I didn´t saw any tourist for weeks....
I don´t believe, that all things from „the table“ are touristic pieces, if that doesn´t mean, all things, that find my interst, just become touristic, because of my interst and my touristic status. Maybe the beads or other items are not as old as I thought (this information would be more tasteful, if it doesn´t come in that typical context of arrogance...), that hurts a bit (does it feel good...?!), because I gave wrong informations to others....but at last I haven´t shown all this for showing „antique treasures“, but for their own beauty, and I still think, some members had fun just for that, collectible or not...Same thing with the Tcherot, that is beautiful worked in silver and worth every $ I paid for...
Maybe you know only two places at Morocco, to find nice antiques...there are much more, if you should open your eyes, talk friendly to the people and, of course, if you are willing to pay the price for antiques....

I know, that you have much more knowledge than me in many parts of the jewelry and beads topics, but the style, you are communicating around that, was hard for me to stand before (much more on the other forum, years before) and is still...It´s kind of tragical, that it´s not possible for you, to share your knowledge in a way, that´s more acceptable for others. From my profession I have to communicate with difficult minds all day long, so there is no need to do as well during the rest of time...to choose and to ignore is the difference to Pawlow´s dogs.