To date the bulk of it has been undertaken by Clarke and Lancaster who have focussed their attention on the use of legitimate freelancing and auction sites for the purposes of contract cheating (see Clarke & Lancaster, 2006, 2007, 2013; Lancaster & Clarke, 2014a, 2014b).
Those sold at auction is legitimate — and pricey.
They talk about creating a solid list of legitimate artifacts to compare against auction house or dealers' stocks, paying local families to guard sites rather than loot them, and the importance of restoring order in unstable areas.
It was routine for team members to sign bats and balls and jerseys, which were used by the team for legitimate purposes, like marketing and auctions and for the use of employees in the team's front office, the person briefed on the case said.
The endorsements are a somewhat surreal reproduction of the rankings given to sellers on legitimate e-commerce sites, like the auction site eBay, or to authors by readers on Amazon.com.
A ministry official said Monday that the government eventually hopes to auction off mining permits to legitimate companies, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The auction lasted ten days and received 99 legitimate bids.
Although museums may be heavily dependent on donations by these antiquity collectors, however against the sale of looted material the legitimate market is, public examples of stolen artefacts in auction house catalogs have made the industry difficult to trust.
Over the centuries, the painting had various owners, and by the time it arrived at auction in 1968, it was not considered a legitimate Raphael.
Radcliffe, who has 15 employees in Delhi combing auction catalogs, says that 3% of the work that moves through legitimate art channels has been stolen.
