Ancient Resources

IGNORE THE NEGATIVE REVIEW BY MARY
I did a LOT of research on this place and the consensus in the ENTIRE antiques/​antiquities community is that this place and Gabriel (the owner) is a legitimate dealer (and one of the few in the U. S that I’ve found).
I bought items from him recently and had them looked at by an expert, and they are as advertised.
I saw the review by Mary D and usually such reviews of antiquities dealers are the nail in the coffin. See something like Sadigh gallery. I was about to give up on this place due to Mary’s review, but they had something I was really interested in, so I did some major digging. There are Yahoo groups and forums you can go to get opinions on dealers, and you can ask other dealers and archaeologists that you know are legitimate.
Literally everyone I talked to confirmed that Ancient Resources and Gabriel only deal in legitimate antiquities. Even detractors (such as one blog where they objected to his conversion of antiquities to jewelry) confirmed that he is in fact a legitimate dealer.
I have no association with this business, and I only just recently bought something from it. If there is something you like in his stock, I highly recommend you do research and determine for yourself instead of just discounting it because of Mary’s review as I almost did. Do as Mary says, and goggle him. Go to antiquities groups and search for him in expert groups.
When I called him up to make a purchase I asked about what Mary was talking about, and it’s actually just a misunderstanding about how things are labeled. I don’t think Mary’s review was malicious, it was just the result of some confusion I think. I don’t know enough to comment more, but you can ask the people at Ancient Resources about it yourself.
Hope this review helps people! This place has a great stock. I bought a legitimate sumerian necklace previously owned by the son of Lawrence of Arabia (THE Lawrence, not Peter O’Toole :-) A fantastic find.

I have been doing business with Gabriel for at least five years. He is very reliable. The items I have purchased have always been exactly as promised. I have never had a problem and love that he has a money back guarantee, which I have never needed or wanted to use. I highly recommend him.

Ancient Resource, LLC is an unethical internet auction company that sells fake «ancient» artifacts. Do a google search of Ancient Resource, and you will find knowledgeable bloggers who have exposed the shenanigans of this secretive (and I’m sure, lucrative) company.
Example: Lot #219 in the June 29, 2014 online auction. The artifact was described as coming from the ancient ruins of Teotihuacan, near Mexico City. I have a master’s degree from UCLA in Latin American Studies and I’ve studied stone puppets from Teotihuacan. I had never seen one that looked so incredibly fake. So, I did some homework.
The auction described the puppet as being on p.234 of Kathleen Berrin’s book «Teotihuacan: Art from the City of the Gods.» So, I bought the book. (A great book, BTW.) The pathetic fake that Ancient Resource ended up selling for hundreds of dollars is NOT in Berrin’s book. The laughable replica is nothing like the authentic puppets shown in Berrin’s book.
Ancient Resource only sells online. There is no live auction. Why would an auction house not want to hold a live auction event in the middle of L.A.‘s huge population? Think of all the potential bidders… Ahhh, but when it’s a con game, you have to stay secretive.
Stay away from this con game.