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<blockquote data-quote="Douane" data-source="post: 4028143" data-attributes="member: 157"><p>I'd like to propose <strong>Dr. Anthony W. Harden</strong>, evaluation and appraisal expert at the Met, occasional lecturer at Columbia University and all-around dilettante. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Anthony is a brilliant mind whose achievements are only limited by his fickle and inconsistent character. He has dabbled in widely varying fields such as archaeology, history, linguistics, psychology and even a little bit of the occult amongst others. Blessed with a fanastic memory that approaches nearly eidetic levels, he will dive headlong into his current activity and work on it to the point of exhaustion, only to completely cast it aside once he deems the matter finished and never look at it again. </p><p></p><p>But Anthony has not always been like this. Prior to an "extended vacation" in Europe 1917-1920 he had been a rather ordinary, if overly ambitious, law student. Tearing through his courses to join his father as soon as possible in his law office, the events of 1917 threw Anthony's plans completely. The urge to enlist brought him quickly into Intelligence since he still spoke and read German fluently. (Despite being of the second generation born in America, Anthony [and the whole family] had never let the knowledge of their original mother tongue lapse.) But soon Anthony grew bored with work he was doing which, to his mind, was just 'more of the same' - theory, theory, theroy. After requesting transfer to the frontline several times, he was finally granted his wish. </p><p></p><p>Even his parents would have had problems recognizing the young man with snow white hair who returned to America in 1920, had they not died in car-related fatal accident one year ago. He simply declined the offer from the law office to assume his father's partnership which they had held open for him on the grounds that his priorities had changed and cashed it in. The relationship to his two sisters and their families remained cordial, but distant. With the money from the law office he resumed the studies he had started after the war in Europe, a search for the "Why?" and "How?".</p><p></p><p>Having recieved his doctoral degree for his groundbreaking study of the effect of the Great War on the human psyche (publíshed as <em>Der Einfluß des Krieges auf die menschliche Psyche unter rechts-theoretischem Geschichtspunkt - Eine vergleichende Studie an Frontkämpfern und Nicht-Kombattanten. Doktor-Dissertation der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Georg August-Universität zu Göttingen. Göttingen 1920.</em>) Anthony spent the next years in archives of all kinds around the globe, still searching for his ultimate answer. And yet he never found it.</p><p></p><p>Still, this work taught him one thing - to differentiate truth from falsehood, forgery from original. Over the years Anthony's interests had slowly begun to change as his 'holy grail' proved ever elusive and upon his final return to America 1923, he resolved to leave the past behind him. By now his fortune had decidedly started to dwindle and so Anthony Harden, 28 by now, sought steady employment for the first time in his life. His unique abilities and the knowledge he had gained in his study of human nature quickly landed him a job as evaluation and appraisal expert at the Met. (He had of course cheated to gain this job by simply memorizing an enormous number of auction catalogues and results which obviously enabled him to assign appropriate values to artifacts with the added touch of mentioning that similar pieces had scored comparative, higher or lower prices previously.)</p><p></p><p>Anthony has also started to lecture at Columbia university on his own special field: "Contemporary Forgery".</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Personality</strong></p><p>Despite his flaws, Anthony has made numerous public appearances in official capacity for the Met. Handsome and exceedingly polite and well-behaved, he knows how to dress and brings a certain, elusive "Old-world-charm" (from back before this meant the <em>Kaiser'</em>s tanks) to bear. In fact, his mind is perfectly suited to the inconsequential small-talk at galas and receptions. (The Met made the mistake only once to send Anthony to an academic lecture. During the first half he still made the effort to correct the lecturer every time he erred, the second half he spent with translating a previously unknown Homer fragment.)</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Anthony W. Harden and Jackson Elias</strong></p><p>Anthony first met Jackson Elias shortly after his return in 1920 during a public presentation/reading of Elias' latest book "Witch Cults of England". His own insight into the human mind and some tidbits he had gathered on the side while living and working on the estate of an english nobleman who had taken him in for a few months made for a spirited discussion between Anthony and Jackson. Though not an immediate friendship, the two certanily took a liking to each other and Anthony even functioned as a sounding-board for Jackson's next book "The Black Power". When Anthony returned to America 1923 after accompanying his english friend to Egypt in late 1922 and attending his subsequent funeral, he brought with him a lot of material and first-hand experiences Jackson had asked him to collect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Douane, post: 4028143, member: 157"] I'd like to propose [B]Dr. Anthony W. Harden[/B], evaluation and appraisal expert at the Met, occasional lecturer at Columbia University and all-around dilettante. Anthony is a brilliant mind whose achievements are only limited by his fickle and inconsistent character. He has dabbled in widely varying fields such as archaeology, history, linguistics, psychology and even a little bit of the occult amongst others. Blessed with a fanastic memory that approaches nearly eidetic levels, he will dive headlong into his current activity and work on it to the point of exhaustion, only to completely cast it aside once he deems the matter finished and never look at it again. But Anthony has not always been like this. Prior to an "extended vacation" in Europe 1917-1920 he had been a rather ordinary, if overly ambitious, law student. Tearing through his courses to join his father as soon as possible in his law office, the events of 1917 threw Anthony's plans completely. The urge to enlist brought him quickly into Intelligence since he still spoke and read German fluently. (Despite being of the second generation born in America, Anthony [and the whole family] had never let the knowledge of their original mother tongue lapse.) But soon Anthony grew bored with work he was doing which, to his mind, was just 'more of the same' - theory, theory, theroy. After requesting transfer to the frontline several times, he was finally granted his wish. Even his parents would have had problems recognizing the young man with snow white hair who returned to America in 1920, had they not died in car-related fatal accident one year ago. He simply declined the offer from the law office to assume his father's partnership which they had held open for him on the grounds that his priorities had changed and cashed it in. The relationship to his two sisters and their families remained cordial, but distant. With the money from the law office he resumed the studies he had started after the war in Europe, a search for the "Why?" and "How?". Having recieved his doctoral degree for his groundbreaking study of the effect of the Great War on the human psyche (publíshed as [I]Der Einfluß des Krieges auf die menschliche Psyche unter rechts-theoretischem Geschichtspunkt - Eine vergleichende Studie an Frontkämpfern und Nicht-Kombattanten. Doktor-Dissertation der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Georg August-Universität zu Göttingen. Göttingen 1920.[/I]) Anthony spent the next years in archives of all kinds around the globe, still searching for his ultimate answer. And yet he never found it. Still, this work taught him one thing - to differentiate truth from falsehood, forgery from original. Over the years Anthony's interests had slowly begun to change as his 'holy grail' proved ever elusive and upon his final return to America 1923, he resolved to leave the past behind him. By now his fortune had decidedly started to dwindle and so Anthony Harden, 28 by now, sought steady employment for the first time in his life. His unique abilities and the knowledge he had gained in his study of human nature quickly landed him a job as evaluation and appraisal expert at the Met. (He had of course cheated to gain this job by simply memorizing an enormous number of auction catalogues and results which obviously enabled him to assign appropriate values to artifacts with the added touch of mentioning that similar pieces had scored comparative, higher or lower prices previously.) Anthony has also started to lecture at Columbia university on his own special field: "Contemporary Forgery". [B]Personality[/B] Despite his flaws, Anthony has made numerous public appearances in official capacity for the Met. Handsome and exceedingly polite and well-behaved, he knows how to dress and brings a certain, elusive "Old-world-charm" (from back before this meant the [I]Kaiser'[/I]s tanks) to bear. In fact, his mind is perfectly suited to the inconsequential small-talk at galas and receptions. (The Met made the mistake only once to send Anthony to an academic lecture. During the first half he still made the effort to correct the lecturer every time he erred, the second half he spent with translating a previously unknown Homer fragment.) [B]Anthony W. Harden and Jackson Elias[/B] Anthony first met Jackson Elias shortly after his return in 1920 during a public presentation/reading of Elias' latest book "Witch Cults of England". His own insight into the human mind and some tidbits he had gathered on the side while living and working on the estate of an english nobleman who had taken him in for a few months made for a spirited discussion between Anthony and Jackson. Though not an immediate friendship, the two certanily took a liking to each other and Anthony even functioned as a sounding-board for Jackson's next book "The Black Power". When Anthony returned to America 1923 after accompanying his english friend to Egypt in late 1922 and attending his subsequent funeral, he brought with him a lot of material and first-hand experiences Jackson had asked him to collect. [/QUOTE]
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