A new venture, Folio Fine Art, sold the manuscript pages, as well as watercolors, original prints, early maps and, later, antiquities.

All of Drovetti's work was collected in the name of France, but he also sold antiquities to the highest bidder, and is reputed to have orchestrated exorbitantly high prices.

Bearded, rumpled, of an indeterminate age, he once owned a shop that sold antiquities, Renaissance furniture and modern art, before it went bust years ago.

Evidently, he made a living by selling paintings and antiquities.

In 1808, Prince Camillo Borghese, Napoleon's brother-in-law, was forced to sell the Borghese Roman sculptures and antiquities to the Emperor.

During the shoot, the police burst in, arresting the owners of the vases for trying to sell antiquities out of the country.

They sell antiquities they discover to raise money, and use the caves as headquarters from which to mount their military and propaganda campaigns.

Not exactly, Joe--I only sell curiosities, or antiquities, when I am hard up.

Lund was caught before selling antiquities in a Jerusalem hotel to members of his tour group who wanted to buy ancient artifacts, but was released with only a warning.

He sold McCormac's Cross and other valuable antiquities in exchange for second-rate copied paintings.