Specifications of the B.A.L.

The Brussels Art Laboratory is :

1. * the oldest European laboratory providing private customers with all kinds of scientific tests
2. * the only European laboratory to be managed by an expert agreed by a national chamber of art experts
3. * the only European thermoluminescence dating laboratory turned towards private customers but disposing of a public status
4. * the first laboratory having performed metallographic examinations with a view to authenticate bronze objects (since 1975)

The laboratory allows his customers a 26 years experience

• - The B.A.L. does not interfere in any commercial arrangement
• - It enjoys a perfect independence and a complete objectivity in its judgments
• - The B.A.L. is putting forward the quality of the scientific work and not the quantity of tests carried out
• - The laboratory is being distinguished by the rapidity of its services
• - The sampling is always done by an art expert
• - The cost of the tests does not depend on the value of the objects
• - The Brussels Art Laboratory proposes an alternative to the thermoluminescence test which reliability is not clear anymore
• - All objects appraised by the B.A.L. are submitted to a patented marking
• - Expertise certificates are unalterable and very well-produced
• - The laboratory delivers a certificate whether the studied object is genuine or false thus allowing the buyer of a fake to round on his supplier