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Sadigh Gallery is a family-owned art gallery based in New York, NY. The gallery was established in 1978 as a small mail order company by Mehrdad Sadigh. Mehrdad is a third-generation artifacts dealer following in the footsteps of his father Aziz, and grandfather Nasir. Mehrdad and Aziz are U.S. immigrants who moved to North America from Hamadan, Iran in the 1970's.

Mehrdad Sadigh originally ran the business out of his apartment in Kew Gardens, Queens (New York City) while participating in coin, stamp and antique shows. After achieving success, Sadigh moved to the current location on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in 1982 and remains there to this day. The gallery is located in a corporate building on the 16th floor of 303 Fifth Avenue, near the Empire State Building and can be visited in-person.

Mehrdad attributes much of his success to the fact that his family has had long-term artifact contacts in most of the world's countries which gives him the position of being the third middleman in business- rather than the fifth as with most galleries and mail-order businesses. The first middleman in the business is the person who digs up the antiquities, followed by a regional exporter, and then Sadigh. Estate sales are also another source of inventory for the Gallery who specializes in low-cost antiquities.

The Gallery's ancient artifacts, coins and jewelry are countries throughout the world and the following cultures: African, American, Asian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Byzantine, Canaanite, Celtic, Cycladic, Egyptian, European, Framed Antiquities, Gandharan, Greco-Roman, Greek, Holy Land, Icons, Italian, Luristan, Mesopotamian, Near Eastern, Persian, Phoenician, Pre-Columbian, Pre-Historic, Roman, Russian, South American, Sumerian, Syrian and Syro-Hittite.

Items sold are guaranteed authentic and come with a Lifetime Certificate of Authenticity and has maintained a stellar rating with national business bureaus and has been featured in articles in Newsday, Ornament and The Celator magazines. The Gallery sends out 5 free full-color Buy or Bid Artifacts catalogs per year and can be requested by calling (800) 426-2007.