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One very usefull tool I use to authenticate African Art is the Yale-Van Rijn Photographic Archive.

This is the largest photographic digital database of African art, and is a division of the Department of African Art, established in 2004, at the Yale University Art Gallery. The Archive has been under development by Guy van Rijn, for several decades. In 2001, the project was acquired and funded for Yale by James J. Ross (Yale B.A. 1960). The ultimate goal is to make the Archive accessible online, but at present it is available for general research by appointment only at the Department of African Art at Yale, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, or at the Van Rijn Documentation Centre, Brussels, Belgium. More »

Carl Ferdinand Schaedler auction results

the auction of Carl Ferdinand Schaedler held at NEUMEISTER Münchener Kunstauktionshaus 14 Oktober 2009
total of the sold lots: 423,200 € without costs
14% of sold lots:  47 lots sold from the 663 offered.
average price of the sold lots is 9004 €

I liked the quality of this auction

You can download the price result list

Carl Ferdinand Schaedler Auction Results

I guess that Mr Schaedler will be happy with the amount of money he will receive, but I guess it was not his ideato go back home with 86 % of his pieces.

Some of the top quality pieces found a new home, and also the cheapest priced items (that probably where sold without a limit price)
see some images from the highest results and auction house details, and a link to the online catalog with images from all the lots,  below in the members section

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