[Northkeep] 14th C. Hand gun on e-bay

[Marc Carlson]

Thank you, Damon.  It looks like a great piece.

[Please insert obligatory rant on why buying and selling antiquities is 
potentially dangerous/naughty/bad/evil/can cause athlete's foot/whathaveyou 
here.]

And I should thank you again since (without making any comments on this 
particular item one way or another) that just tracking down the seller and 
what he's been involved with has been a truly interesting way to kill some 
time at the reference desk :).  Eftis Paraskevaidesis a Cambridgeshire 
gynecologist who was suspended from practice in 2000 (I don't know if he got 
his licence back), and has been selling antiques ever since - with numerous 
insinuations of selling fakes here and there.  Personally I couldn't care 
less about selling fakes, it's looting that causes me issues, and I haven't 
found anything on that just yet.

M/D