Items/artifacts were collected by my grandfather in the 1920’s while living and working in Cali, Colombia as an animal importer/exporter. We inherited these artifacts from my uncle after his death.
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A small collection of inherited items purchased from Columbia in the 1920's. Ceramics collection includes several small heads, figurative pieces and pots. Clay sculptures have no further adornment, without glaze, without design marks. A range in heights and widths with unknown weights. Please refer to the rights and protections in sales of ethnographic objects and the governing laws that dictate regulations on the re-sale of inherited archaeological items.
An in-person assessment with a regional anthropology society, museum, or University department will help to define the needed information for a full valuation on these protected items. If they are of the correct materials and forms of the pre-columbian production era; they will assume a higher FMV. If the physical assessment concludes that the items are later in production, or something re-created for the tourist trade, each piece could still hold a FMV of $25 to $45 USD per-example.