Err... my comment was referring to the sales tax evasion. I'm aware that the looting of cultural artifacts is an age-old practice, that's only recently been legislated against.
Are you sure about that? It seems that at least online businesses don't work that way.[1]
1. https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/self-employment-taxes/s...
> If your business has a physical presence, or “nexus”, in a state, you must collect applicable sales taxes from online customers in that state.
> If you do not have a physical presence, you generally do not have to collect sales tax for online sales. However, in June of 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that will likely change this exemption to collecting sales tax.
It's not immediately clear to me why, when someone in Oklahoma City purchases an object from someone in London, anyone should be paying a New York sales tax.