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question open 2026-07-11

Can Oxford Authentication Ltd's ~3,000–3,500 items/year throughput, 90% ceramics share, and the 75% Hong Kong copy figure be sourced to primaries?

claim-thermoluminescence-dating-became-a-commercial-antiquities-forgery-detector carries an [unverified-quant] flag. Three specific numbers rest on a single Tier-3 Smithsonian article: that Oxford Authentication Ltd tests roughly 3,000–3,500 antiques a year, about 90% of them Chinese ceramics, and that "almost 75 percent of the so-called antiques marketed through Hong Kong are said to be copies."

Why it matters: sources.md puts any specific number at a Tier 1–2 floor; numbers are what journalism most often garbles, and each usually has a primary home.

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