Society & club · also Learned body
Society for Corrected Antiquities
Also called David Ashdown's corrected-antiquities circle · David Ashdown's Society
A society offering polite cover for ruthless bidding on provenance, fragments and old devotional matter once it can be made to look legitimate.
A learned society that has published at length on three of the old sheets showing a single island in the Five Isles. The most respectable sociable circle of London's collector culture.
Named with it
At the table
Ashdown can convert antiquarian usefulness into respectable sponsorship. It reached no finding in any of the three, which the text calls the most honest work anyone has done on the question.