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And using reputable auction houses reassures buyers that the wine is not counterfeit.Prices for Château Lafite Rothschild, the market leader, have doubled in the past six months.

"We are talking about the areas that were part of the cradle of civilisation being pillaged, artefacts going back thousands of years that should be studied in museums are instead disappearing on the black market," a British archaeologist told Buzzfeed, while "unheard of" numbers of stolen goods are finding their way into reputable auction houses and sold off.

First, find a reputable auction house.

All reputable auction houses and estate liquidators should be able to provide you with reasonably detailed information on the lots in question.

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A safer way to buy in an online auction may be to make sure you are dealing with a reputable auction company.

David Williams of Fast Lane Classic Cars in St. Charles, Mo., recently bought a 1968 Shelby Mustang GT-500 convertible advertised as a matching-numbers car at a reputable auto auction.

Sotheby's says the statue was legally purchased in good faith from a reputable London auction house in 1975 and it "denies knowledge that the Duryodhana statue was stolen".

Sotheby's has said the statue was legally purchased in good faith from a reputable London auction house in 1975 by the owner's husband, now deceased, who had no reason to suspect that such a sale could be bound by laws set by a government that had long passed from power.

But Christopher Marinello, director of Art Recovery International, says that, partly due to recent media attention, dealers now increasingly view objects from Syria as suspect: "Reputable dealers and auction houses are doing the right thing and asking the right questions", when they come across antiquities with questionable provenance.

Which is why it's best to stick with reputable dealers and auction houses and leave buying in China to the pros.