Old Celtic Flute on Ebay 5 A.D.! It's keyless....

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Old Celtic Flute on Ebay 5 A.D.! It's keyless....

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http://cgi.ebay.com/INTERESTING-RARE-CE ... dZViewItem
I don't know, maybe it would a early whistle... I like the fipple on it!
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Omigod....!!!! They're selling my avatar!!! :boggle:
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I wonder if the seller is offering Carbon Dating as proof of age....



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Loren wrote:I wonder if the seller offering Carbon Dating as proof of age....



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You're right Jon, it's something I need to work on - My therapist tells me I have trust issues.....


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And to think that it dates back to the "Celtic Period"...... (when was that, exactly?)
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crookedtune wrote:And to think that it dates back to the "Celtic Period"...... (when was that, exactly?)
Good question!

Somebody call Michael and get that sorted.
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Hmmm...

Take a common carrot, drill a couple of holes in it, cover in it quick-set epoxy, and sell it for big buck$ on Ebay....

I might could quit my day job! :D :lol: 8) :party:

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Let's say it were actually authentic (the cuts into the bone look a bit too fresh, but what do I know? :wink: ); wouldn't it be illegal to sell antiquities found on British soil? I thought that the State had first dibs.
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And if it's human remains, the buyer could become accomplice to a crime. Then someone'll pay the piper! Get it? Pay the piper? OK....I'll leave now....
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Another Leprechaun flute! Clearly from a Celtic Sabertooth Cat.
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My good friend the archeologist tells me that bogus antiques are sold on e-bay all the time. And real ones are smuggled out of their home nations illegally. In fact Ebay has been at the center of several lawsuits from the science community over these matters.

Frequently, the sellers gets away with it by having part of some old as a piece of item for sale. ( no I'm not kidding, only wish that I was...)

By that logic, I have a 5000 year celtic harp in my den because there is a small piece of bog oak of that vintage on the neck... yeah, right...and we're being invaded by Spain and Mermaids are real. :shock:

The picture looks more less like artifact and more like evidence... maybe some cretan found a creative way of deposing of their vicitms???
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Resembles a walrus penis bone.... Now who's going to blow that?
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m31 wrote:Resembles a walrus penis bone.... Now who's going to blow that?
A lady Walrus?

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That looks like the sort of artefact that in my days as an archaeologist we would term "ceremonial" -- ie, we haven't a clue what it is. Celtic period is an interesting non-term, although the dealers other objects look to be Iron Age/Roman Era -- sort of 4th cent. BC to 4th cent. AD if my memory serves me right (it's been 30 years and I don't have reference materials to hand). Selling stuff is legal; in the UK the government only has first dibs on precious metals. The ethics are another issue and depend on when found, where, by whom and how long ago. There's quite a lot of stuff that has turned up in furrows, drainage ditches etc. over the years and has been knocking about the collectors' market as long as there has been a market. In the 18th century, no educated gentleman's home was complete without a cabinet of curiosities containing various specimens of antiquity, geology, natural history, ethnology etc. anymore than it would be complete without a few musical instruments, including maybe a nice flute or consort of recorders. (See, I got the thread back on track!)
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