Updates on laws affecting the trade, from wildlife material bans to import/export rules.
Ivory regulation has grown genuinely complex, and the cost of getting it wrong now includes seizure, fines, and lasting reputational damage.
Tortoiseshell sits in a regulatory gray zone many dealers underestimate, and cross-border sales are where the real risk concentrates.
The paperwork that protects an international antiques transaction is rarely glamorous, but its absence is the single most common cause of cross-border deals gone wrong.
Antique inventory rarely respects national borders, and neither, unfortunately, does the patchwork of tax rules a dealer has to navigate to sell it legally.
The provenance gap on an object's paperwork isn't just a cataloging nuisance anymore; it can become a legal claim decades after a sale closes.
Selling online means selling under distance-selling rules built for mass retail, and antiques dealers are still catching up to what that actually requires.
Age alone doesn't settle whether a weapon is legally an antique, and dealers who assume it does are the ones who end up in genuine legal trouble.