Oxytropidoceras Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 An Ancient Horse Is Unearthed in a Utah Backyard Paleontologists recently determined that a skeleton discovered during a landscaping project belonged to a horse from the Pleistocene Era. New Year Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/science/horse-skeleton-utah.html Utah Family Found Ancient Horse Skeleton In Their Backyard By Rex Austin, Great Lakes Ledger, May 3, 2018 https://greatlakesledger.com/2018/05/03/utah-family-found-ancient-horse-skeleton-in-their-backyard/ Fossil Friday Roundup: May 4, 2018 by Sarah Gibson, Fossil Friday Roundup, May 4, 2018 http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2018/05/04/fossil-friday-roundup-may-4-2018/ Yours, Paul H. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raggedy Man Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Wonderful find ...I'm back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelivingdead531 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Amazing find indeed, but I have to ask a stupid question based on the end of the article: can people really get tax deductions for donating specimens to museums? I find that a little odd, to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 11 hours ago, thelivingdead531 said: Amazing find indeed, but I have to ask a stupid question based on the end of the article: can people really get tax deductions for donating specimens to museums? I find that a little odd, to be honest. Get a written appraisal from a dealer, get a letter of receipt from the tax exempt recipient, get a bona fide legal tax writeoff. No point in leaving $$$ on the table to be squandered by Uncle Sam. It may seem odd at first because it is a donation of “found money”, but keep in mind that it is an object with intrinsic value that often requires outlay of travel expenses and involves intellectual property in the form of acquired site knowledge and collecting acumen that the institution gets for free. Viewed as such, you can see the value stream adding up. 2 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelivingdead531 Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 14 hours ago, Uncle Siphuncle said: Get a written appraisal from a dealer, get a letter of receipt from the tax exempt recipient, get a bona fide legal tax writeoff. No point in leaving $$$ on the table to be squandered by Uncle Sam. It may seem odd at first because it is a donation of “found money”, but keep in mind that it is an object with intrinsic value that often requires outlay of travel expenses and involves intellectual property in the form of acquired site knowledge and collecting acumen that the institution gets for free. Viewed as such, you can see the value stream adding up. That is a very good point, I had not thought of that. Thank you for enlightening me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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