As a matter of fact, I have been to the archives basement room at the Chicago Museum of Natural History. And you?
[cockfight modus on]
Yep, me to. Even have good connections with my provence archeologes (= beyond city borders) and have been in the provincial archaeological depot.
I even have been personally invited at the National government service for cultural heritage and have personal connections overthere. I have been a
member of a select group of delegates for all detecorists in my country regarding heritage legislation. Perhaps i can even show you badges from visits if i didn't throw them away. And i am even personally mentioned in their official reports made for our national politicians, and on there website in word and picture (so i could prove what i am saying).
Been invited at other archeological events and organizations. Even have been special guest once at yet another organisation.
Can you say that? Should i go on?
If you were there and saw enough then you must know that even electrical cleaning methods come around. Dremel like machines. Not always, but they are used (on hard hammers and so).
Or are you condemning this museum for this hammer?
https://museumrotterdam.nl/collecti...nStart=16&objectrow=23&itemReturnSearch=hamer
And did you think this fibula came out of the ground like this?
https://museumrotterdam.nl/collecti...=0&objectrow=11&itemReturnSearch=middeleeuwen
So please stop this cockfight. I do not like competition. Yes i have such professional connections. I guess i have more experience with old objects here in europe then you can have overthere in the US.
For you overthere such 1750 hammer is very old. Overhere it is archeological classified as not archeological interesting
modern ages. You jump high in the air for a collonial coin, which we overhere find about 2-6 each hunt, no matter how much you go out detecting.
Overhere everything younger then 1500 is not that interesting. Not archeological interesting. When did Columbus found what he thought would be India, and what made America start to exist?
I have had many much older finds in my hands then you probably will ever have. Both in metal (thousends yo) as in non-metal (half bio+ yo)
and all my property and in my posession.
I myself found and own at least
950 archeological interesting artefacts from 200.000BC up to 1500AD and all times in between (lost exact count
) which are all officially registered for that reason by the government. I even own older non-human objects and many more younger modern age finds, but those are not interesting for archeologs so i do not even count these.
And [ontopic] i have more then once got compliments from these specialists about how well and nice i preserve my finds.
Do you have that deep and wide experience? I guess not. [/cockfight modus off] .. hopefully for ever, as i really do not like such. But you see, if needed i can.
So "destroyed the history of it" is very relative. He didn't melt it down. It's still there. Chill. He didn't shine pollish the Statue of Liberty.
What is interesting is relative (locally and personally). And i already agreed partly with you, and gave him the option to next time leave some of the shine behind and keep some old look, and he said he will think about that. But if he doesn't, that's totally up to him and no one else. I hope he for sure doesn't when really interesting heritage artifacts.
So please stop judging him. Christmas is coming.