February 2008 Archives by date
Starting: Fri Feb 1 09:54:29 CET 2008
Ending: Fri Feb 29 16:03:54 CET 2008
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- [MSN] GOAMM foils smuggling over 300 antique pieces
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- [MSN] IS THE STEALING OF CULTURAL OBJECTS OF OTHERS A SPECIFIC CULTURAL HERITAGE OF EUROPE OR IS IT A UNIVEVERSAL HERITAGE?
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- [MSN] PERU. Roban enchapados de plata del altar mayor y sagrario de templo colonial en Cusco
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- [MSN] Under falling snow, federal agents carted out dozens of framed pictures Thursday from a River North art gallery suspected of selling fake Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall and Joan Miro artwork to unsuspecting collectors
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- [MSN] Jacksonville. Art dealer on the lam arrested for selling fakes
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- [MSN] The federal investigation into looted Asian antiquities at Southern California museums has broadened to include a prominent Chicago industrialist and art collector who purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of allegedly stolen artifacts from a C
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- [MSN] Museum fire. El Paso Holocaust Museum reopens seven years after damaging fire
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- [MSN] {Spam?} Proteggere i beni culturali anche su internet
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- [MSN] Man arrested in Bangladesh for stealing Nobel medal from Kolkata
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- [MSN] Catherdal City, Ca. Library Fire. Fire Does $2 M Damage on Cathedral City Library
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- [MSN] CERRITOS, Calif. - An Investigation Focuses on Antiquities Dealer
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- [MSN] Illinois. Hairpiece in county museum being returned to England
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- [MSN] Wales, U.K. Thief stole books to order for eBay sales
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- [MSN] Italy lending Bernini art to the Getty. A major exhibit of the sculptor's busts will go on display following settlement of a dispute over looted antiquities.
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- [MSN] STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A Swedish museum was accused this week of violating agreements on the return of art looted by the Nazis during World War II.
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- [MSN] Sprinklers: APELDOORN - De centrale bibliotheek van CODA wordt nog voor de zomer brandveilig gemaakt.
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- [MSN] Indonesia demands historic stone back
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- [MSN] {Spam?} High demand in China still buoying copper theft problem
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- [MSN] WASHINGTON - Recent raids on museums in Southern California have stirred much questioning in the art world about why three federal agencies would devote four years to investigating what seems to be low-level smuggling and penny-ante tax fraud.
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- [MSN] THIEVES have ruined a Glasgow hairstylist's night of glory - by swiping the £1000 Peter Howson print he was awarded to mark his long service.
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- [MSN] Washington County sheriff looking for Elvis - a stolen painting of him anyway
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- [MSN] Belgium: Des inspecteurs de police soupçonnés de vol
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- [MSN] Probe, smuggling allegations mar museum plans.
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- [MSN] Ybor City, Florida - Someone has once again stolen a bronze bust of matriarch Adele Gonzmart from its place outside the Columbia Restaurant in Ybor City.
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- [MSN] A common thief does not obtain ownership of stolen goods, and it is no different when the thieves are the Bolsheviks
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- [MSN] Library remains unsafe after $2M fire damage. Cathedral City Library patrons are asked not to stop by to check out books or use computers due to safety hazards.
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- [MSN] Portsmouth Olympic Harbour building in Kingston: Thieves target antique show; Stolen jewelry worth thousands of dollars
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- [MSN] Sprinkler system paid for by Jack Daniels saved historic school. In the end, it was firewater that saved the Historic Fourth Ward School Museum in Virginia City from fire. That, along with a top-of-the-line sprinkler system and a quick response from the l
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- [MSN] A New Way Forward for U.S. Museums; www.savingantiquities.org
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- [MSN] Product information: FX Prevent (permanent reduction of oxygen level to prevent fires)
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- [MSN] New York: An art gallery has sued the Christie's auction house and a man in an effort to recover a $100, 000 Andy Warhol painting that the gallery reported stolen nearly 10 years ago.
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- [MSN] {Spam?} Sieben Monate nach dem Diebstahl wertvoller Weltkarten des griechischen Geographen Ptolemäus aus der spanischen Nationalbibliothek ist eine davon in Australien aufgetaucht. Die Karte sei bei einem Antiquitätenhändler in Sydney gefunden worden, so spanisch
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- [MSN] Insider theft: New York History Stolen, Sold For Profit, Prosecutors Charge State Employee
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- [MSN] ASPEN - A Woody Creek artist is unsure who did it, but someone stole $11, 000 worth of her artwork off the walls of a downtown Aspen bank in broad daylight last week, and the paintings apparently have been given away for free.
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- [MSN] Art dealer threatened informant: feds. Norman Rockwell might have blushed at the language a Northbrook art dealer allegedly hurled at an undercover informant earlier this year.
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- [MSN] {Spam?} CARABINIERI: RITROVATI OLTRE 600 REPERTI ARCHEOLOGICI
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- [MSN] Book review: Wem hat van Gogh sein Ohr geschenkt?
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- [MSN] Four men currently serving 87-month sentences for stealing rare books and manuscripts from the Transylvania University library could receive additional prison time.
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- [MSN] Russians Reveal Hoard of 46, 000 Art Treasures Stolen by Nazis
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- [MSN] An American Army helicopter pilot has been charged with handling ancient Egyptian artifacts looted from a museum near Cairo in 2002.
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- [MSN] Mexico. Robo de arte sacro, debido a falta de valores
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- [MSN] Cottbus (dpa/bb) - Nach dem Diebstahl der Bronzeskulptur «Carl Blechen» des Bildhauers Jürgen von Woyski in Cottbus hat Oberbürgermeister Frank Szymanski (SPD) für Hinweise zur Aufklärung der Straftat 500 Euro Belohnung ausgesetzt.
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- [MSN] Man accused of selling at least $300K worth of forged art on Ebay
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- [MSN] Valuable Elvis painting returned to owner in Stillwater
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- [MSN] Mexico. Formal prisión a acusados de robar piezas de arte sacro
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- [MSN] 2 Picasso works stolen from Swiss exhibit
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- [MSN] Greece returns stolen ancient statues to Albania
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- [MSN] Javanese demand repatriation of Minto's stone of contention
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- [MSN] SoHo Gallery Sues For Return Of Stolen Warhol Painting
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- [MSN] Newport artist wanted in theft case caught in Dallas
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- [MSN] To catch an art thief. Special Agent and Towson alumnus Robert K. Wittman to give lecture on his role in solving international art crimes
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- [MSN] Volunteer Management course online in March
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- [MSN] U.S. Pastor Held for Bullets in Suitcase
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- [MSN] Les œuvres des musées français ne sont pas à vendre
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- [MSN] INTERPOL have joined an international search for an ancient stone artefact stolen from the Barbar Temple. The object went missing despite the fact that it would have taken at least six people to carry it and the ancient site is guarded round the clock.
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- [MSN] US. Rare meteorite stolen in Keys. The stolen piece, which is the size of a 3x5 post card and extremely rare, was worth $10, 000
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- [MSN] Thieves of rare books and manuscripts from the Transylvania University library could receive additional prison time
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- [MSN] {Spam?} Keine Spur von Picasso-Gemälden
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- [MSN] Product informatie: Samenwerking Automatic Signal en SOWNet Technolgies zorgt voor optimale kunstobjectbeveiliging!
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- [MSN] Witness in Radya Pustaka Museum theft found dead
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- [MSN] NAMIBIAN BONES IN EUROPEAN MUSEUMS. HOW LONG ARE THE DEAD TO REMAIN UNBURIED? GENOCIDE WITH IMPUNITY.
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- [MSN] Finders, keepers. As museums ship ancient treasures back to the countries where they were found, some are now saying: Enough.
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- [MSN] The Russian government has set up a website detailing some 46, 000 of the country's artworks missing due to looting by the Nazis during the Second World War.
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- [MSN] Sumerian Mona Lisa retrieved in Iraq
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- [MSN] Federal agents accuse smuggler of stealing N.M. artifacts
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- [MSN] Une récompense de 10 000 francs suisses offerte après le vol de deux tableaux de Picasso
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- [MSN] Switzerland PFÄFFIKON – Wo sind die Picassos? Die Polizei vermutet beim dreisten Kunstraub Insider am Werk – und stellt das Museum auf den Kopf.
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- [MSN] Major paintings stolen in Zurich raid. Armed robbers have stolen paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet from museum in Zurich, Switzerland
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- [MSN] ZURICH (Reuters) - Paintings worth about $91 million were stolen from a Zurich museum in an armed robbery in the second dramatic art theft in the area within days, police said on Monday.
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- [MSN] List of notable art robberies
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- [MSN] Every time there is a major art heist there is speculation that the crime has been carried out to order but most specialist art theft investigators are sceptical that such criminal masterminds exist.
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- [MSN] U.K. The Royal Academy tried to buy the silence of families battling for compensation from the Russian government for priceless works of art stolen from their forebears
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- [MSN] DENVER, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- A Colorado lawmaker says the theft of his fiberglass prairie dog statue has turned out to be more a source of amusement than annoyance.
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- [MSN] update Zurich art haul
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- [MSN] Zurich art heist: The Heist of Monet's Poppies Near Vetheuil and Understanding the Thieves' Motivation
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- [MSN] PRESS RELEASE: The Regional Court of Hanover (Landgericht Hannover) attests that the Niedersächsische Landesmuseum acquired a Tiepolo painting in good faith despite expert concerns regarding the lawfulness of this acquisition
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- [MSN] HOLDERS OF ILLEGAL CULTURAL OBJECTS ALARMED BY GROWING DEMANDS FOR RESTITUTION.,,, It is simply amazing how Eurocentric and selfish many of the arguments of the defenders of plunder and stealing of other people's cultural property are. The opponents
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- [MSN] Tot 4,5 jaar cel voor beeldenroof Singer Museum
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- [MSN] {Spam?} Kunstraub: Gemaelde als Geisel missbraucht?
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- [MSN] {Spam?} Die Sicherung der Kunstwerke ist immer mehr eine Geldfrage
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- [MSN] Scotland Yard Art Sleuth Slaps Museums for Lax Daytime Security
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- [MSN] query: on off sprinklers systems
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- [MSN] Bare walls, soft security where art hung
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- [MSN] {Spam?} The World's Greatest Art Heists
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- [MSN] {Spam?} Thai Antiquities, Resting Uneasily
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- [MSN] Critters Force Loudoun Museum Closure
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- [MSN] {Spam?} Big art theft in Zurich raises fears for smaller museums
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- [MSN] The art of restitution
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- [MSN] {Spam?} Reward beats risk for art thieves. Steven Spielberg led the FBI straight to a stolen $700, 000 Norman Rockwell painting someone snatched from a Missouri gallery. It was in his collection in California.
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- [MSN] Part of the art collection of the priest murdered by thieves about a decade ago found in Lithuania
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- [MSN] Colombian Police Arrest Thieves of Ecuadorean Baroque Treasure
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- [MSN] BERLIN - A German museum has discovered that a painting long believed to be by French impressionist Claude Monet is a forgery, officials said Thursday.
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- [MSN] An $8 million painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat has been located in a Manhattan warehouse after apparently being smuggled out of Brazil, federal prosecutors said.
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- [MSN] Police and private investigators have made a breakthrough in probing the theft of artworks in Pretoria, seizing paintings and sketches worth hundreds of thousands of rands in a raid on a local syndicate.
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- [MSN] L.A. Thieves had the brass to take Mid-City bronze statue of a miner
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- [MSN] {Spam?} Art detective to track stolen paintings. The armed robbers who drove away from the Bührle museum in Zurich with paintings worth SFr180 million ($165 million) have set wheels in motion in the art world.
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- [MSN] Los Angeles police said the soaring prices of bronze, brass and copper are behind a rash of metal artwork thefts, including a 7-foot-tall statue.
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- [MSN] A week after the painting of former Ithaca College president Ellis Phillips was stolen from Phillips Hall, the portrait has yet to be recovered.
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- [MSN] Switzerland: stolen Van Gogh a forgery
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- [MSN] Zurichs Art Theft Prompts Naive Museums to Review Security
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- [MSN] As the international debate over stolen art continues, a new online catalogue documents Russia's cultural losses after World War II.
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- [MSN] An Israeli man has been charged by US authorities with attempting to sell art and antiques stolen from Paris in the late 1990s.
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- [MSN] Russian Court Shuts Down University That Offered Politically Sensitive Courses
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- [MSN] AXA ART RESPONDS TO LATEST ART THEFTS OFFERS MUSEUMS WORLDWIDE SWIFT PROTECTION ENHANCEMENTS THROUGH SECURITY AUDITS
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- [MSN] I don't know much about modern art but I know what it costs
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- [MSN] Australia has returned a precious map that was stolen from the Spanish National Library last year, concluding what has been described as a very unhappy case.
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- [MSN] Organized crime likely behind Swiss art heist: expert
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- [MSN] Kunst als Waehrung im kriminellen Milieu?
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- [MSN] JACKSON, Tenn. (BP)--The Ryan Center for Biblical Studies at Union University lost approximately 10 percent of its holdings when the EF-4 tornado swept through the Jackson, Tenn., campus Feb. 5.
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- [MSN] The big bronze artwork, stolen from its perch in Carthay Circle sometime last week, is found in a scrapyard, cut into two pieces. Two men have been arrested in the case and are suspects in other theft
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- [MSN] nEW Zealand. Development in hunt for stolen medals
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- [MSN] OM in beroep in zaak beeldenroof Singer Museum
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- [MSN] Stolen haul of military medals recovered in New Zealand
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- [MSN] US. Waterbury woman faces another art theft charge
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- [MSN] US, Miami. Dade art program audited: It's not pretty
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- [MSN] {Spam?} Erneuter Kunstraub in Zürich
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- [MSN] God of mystery: Gaps in Apollo statue's history make it a focus of debate
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- [MSN] Gestohlenes Tiepolo Gemaelde in Niedersaechsische Landesmuseum, Hannover - painting stolen from jewish family in German museum. Museum refuses to return painting.
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- [MSN] Art theft is worth UKPounds 3bn a year, and the latest heist is one of the biggest ever. Andrew Johnson reports on the volatile trade in pictures, antiques and sculpture
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- [MSN] Where You Going With That Monet?
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- [MSN] Museum theft. Roban una momia del Museo Historico de La Boca
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- [MSN] Another art theft in Switzerland. Kilchberg (ZH): des inconnus ont volee onze tableaux
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- [MSN] Peru. Piezas culturales robadas fueron repatriadas a Lima
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- [MSN] {Spam?} Der Buehrle-Raub - auch ein Lehrstueck ueber den Kunstbetrieb
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- [MSN] Argentina. Robaron en menos de 24 horas piezas de dos museos
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- [MSN] Fw: Old Pots Cops Paint as "Hot" Sold Openly in Thailand
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- [MSN] Argentina. Roban monedas del Museo Histórico y Numismático del Banco Nación
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- [MSN] photos of stolen Tiepolo painting in Niedersaechsische Landesmuseum, Hannover, Germany
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- [MSN] Wie man einen Anspruch verwirkt. Die Rückgabe von Kunstwerken: Zu den Spekulationen über eine Fristenlösung
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- [MSN] Report: Swiss police find paintings stolen in Zurich art heist
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- [MSN] {Spam?} Israel Museum exhibits art looted by Nazis and unclaimed
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- [MSN] Arte: recuperata da polizia Venezia scultura lignea del '500
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- [MSN] Spain. Detienen a dos acusados de robar y vender los azulejos del Colegio de la Seda. Los agentes lograron recuperar cuatro azulejos y una cantonera
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- [MSN] India. Five years on, museums await new inclusions. Purchases could not be made as most owners, who presented their collections, have not registered their accumulations under the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972.
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- [MSN] Kostbaar Byzantijns kruis gestolen uit kathedraal van Doornik
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- [MSN] violent armed robbery in Belgium church; 8th century Byzantine cross stolen (value circa 25 million)
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- [MSN] More on Belgium church robbery.
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- [MSN] Zimbabwe. Time to Review National Cultural Policy
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- [MSN] Museum archivist in federal court on theft, fraud charges. Mariners' Museum archivist charged with selling museum pieces on eBay
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- [MSN] New Zealand. Gang figure 'negotiated return of medals', Waiouru Army Museum
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- [MSN] Swiss police say found 2 stolen Zurich artworks
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- [MSN] Stolen Art on Display in a Search for Owners
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- [MSN] Italians recover looted ancient artifacts; European trafficking ring busted, say Italian police
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- [MSN] Stolen Nazi gold may be in German cavern (Amber Room)
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- [MSN] NASHVILLE, Tenn. Lawsuit over O'Keeffe collection as museum seeks control
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- [MSN] Wordt kunst gestolen op bestelling of is hier sprake van een hardnekkige fictie? (n.a.v. roven in Zurich en Doornik)
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- [MSN] Un tableau de Seurat disparu pendant l'Occupation retrouvé par la police
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- [MSN] Argentina. Museo Histórico y Numismático del Banco Nación. La colección de monedas robada vale US$ 700.000 y muchas eran piezas únicas.
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- [MSN] Waiouru's Army Museum reviews options to keep medals safe
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- [MSN] Insider theft. The former chief archivist for The Mariners' Museum faces 20 years for theft. Lester Weber is accused of stealing items from Mariners' Museum and selling them on eBay.
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- [MSN] {Spam?} MONT VERNON. Museum owners' world collapses. In 1995, the museum was destroyed by fire. About 18 months ago, heavy rains and winds toppled trees, destroying a roof and the contents of a building.
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- [MSN] Austria. Wie sicher sind unsere Museen?
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- [MSN] A $300, 000 painting stolen nearly 18 years ago from the McGill Faculty Club has been retrieved and returned to the university.
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- [MSN] {Spam?} New Zealand. Museum reviews options to keep medals safe.
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- [MSN] Stratford - It's not exactly the heist of the century, but police in Stratford are looking for a thief who has a taste for art. (see image of painting)
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- [MSN] Zimmerman Library basement to reopen after almost a year. The basement was closed for renovation after a fire in April 2006.
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- [MSN] U.K. CHURCH THIEVES POSED AS WANNABE NEWLYWEDS. They were then given the keys. When the pair had left and the caretaker checked the church, he noticed two altar vases had been stolen.
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- [MSN] Insider theft. The former head of a Virginia maritime museum has been charged with selling off items from its Titanic collection and other memorabilia.
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- [MSN] Marion True. More than six months after the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles agreed to hand over 40 artifacts to Italy, the criminal trial of its former curator of antiquities lumbers on in Rome
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- [MSN] LOS ANGELES -- Two men charged with stealing bronze sculptures and statues in the Wilshire area and Beverly Hills over a two-week period remained jailed Wednesday, awaiting a Feb. 29 hearing to determine if they will have to stand trial.
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- [MSN] Discovered labyrinth may hold Amber Room
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- [MSN] Seven Questions: A Reformed Stolen-Art Dealer Tells All
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- [MSN] {Spam?} Berlin, Germany: Wir wollen unser Erbe zurueck
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- [MSN] New Acropolis museum set for September opening
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- [MSN] HEIRS OF CURT GLASER REACT TO DECISION OF THE BASEL CITY COUNSEL DENYING THE RETURN NAZI LOOTED ART
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- [MSN] Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of Iraq's Past
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- [MSN] New Zealand. Medals theft linked to Goldie painting heist (was a ransom paid via a dubious lawyer? TC)
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- [MSN] Baltomore. Police raid Ellicott City art gallery, take stuffed birds
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- [MSN] A man claiming to be one of the thieves who took war medals from the Waiouru Army Museum has given an interview.
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- [MSN] Fake auction helps solve crime
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- [MSN] Oscar White Muscarella to lead SAFE Tour at the Met
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- [MSN] Axa campagne naar aanleiding van roofovervallen mosterd na de maaltijd? Onafhankelijk alternatief: gratis risicoanalyse voor musea dankzij overheidssubsidie.
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- [MSN] The Art Newspaper: Modigliani scholar faces trial for fraud.
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- [MSN] New Zealand. The police have secured a search warrant to obtain information from TV3, which has broadcast an interview with a man claiming to have helped steal valour medals from Waiouru.
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- [MSN] ENFOQUE-Ecuador contra el tiempo para salvar patrimonio cultural
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- [MSN] Precious books stolen in Slovakia found in Budapest shop
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- [MSN] ENFOQUE-Ecuador contra el tiempo para salvar patrimonio cultural
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- [MSN] Precious books stolen in Slovakia found in Budapest shop
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- [MSN] Information plus photos on Interpol website about the Armed robbery at Tournai Cathedral, Belgium
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- [MSN] {Spam?} Costa Rican Archaeology to be Lost?
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- [MSN] Stoddard battle over beloved stolen Pissarro paid off
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- [MSN] De gemeente Huizen gaat de 3 beelden die in januari 2007 zijn gestolen en de 2 beelden die zijn beschadigd in de komende 2 jaar vervangen.
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- [MSN] FBI finds 3 prized, long-lost paintings. Three valuable paintings stolen in a brazen 1976 armed robbery in Shrewsbury, Mass. are in the hands of the FBI, after they were surrendered by a Bristol attorney who received them from his brother, a Barrington art dealer, as collateral for a loan six or seven years ago.
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- [MSN] Vermont, US. More charges in theft of 30 bronze sculptures worth a million dollars from a studio in North Troy last year
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- [MSN] New Zealand. Stolen McCahon under police investigation. The Colin McCahon sculpture was seized during a police raid of Infratil chief executive Lloyd Morrison's home last week after it was reported stolen.
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- [MSN] {Spam?} Venetians reconstructing a gold-covered barge used by the doges of Venice until it was reduced to ashes by Napoleon have appealed to President Sarkozy of France to contribute to the cost “by way of reparation”.
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- [MSN] New Zealand. Before their return, the stolen Waiouru medals had been stored underground in a PVC pipe.
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- [MSN] Artikelen over sprinklers in Museumvisie en EOS gelardeerd met fouten.
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- [MSN] Bangkok: TEMPLE THIEVES GET DARING; Few stolen goods are ever retrieved.
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- [MSN] Ann Arbor book store owner charged in theft probe
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- [MSN] NEW DELHI: Faced with increasing incidents of smuggling of invaluable cultural property from the country, the government is planning to create a databank of India's heritage.
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- [MSN] Costa Rica. Iglesia coordinará acciones con la Interpol
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- [MSN] Italian police find dozens of artifacts
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- [MSN] Libya. Roman marble board with an engravement of the Greek deity Hurmuz reigning four horses stolen from antiquities storage house in Shahat, in Gabal Al Akhdar region in eastern Libya in 1999 was handed over to the Libya reprsentative in UNESCO in Paris yesterday.
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- [MSN] Argentina. Las monedas históricas robadas del Museo del Banco Nación serían vendidas en EE.UU. y España
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- [MSN] The Lost Treasure of Machu Picchu
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- [MSN] A Silken Mountain of Forgery. IN 1957 the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, snagged what appeared to be a rare masterpiece by the 10th-century Chinese painter Guan Tong. But not long after the acquisition, doubts began to creep in.
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- [MSN] Tanzania. Conservator of Antiquities, Archaelogist Reinfrida Justine Kapela has sounded a warning to international community and Tanzania in particular on the vandalism going on in Bagamoyo historical sites.
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- [MSN] Thai antiquities in U.S. may be stolen. 5-year investigation has implications for many museums. (Jori Finkel, New York Times)
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- [MSN] {Spam?} A valuable painting stolen from the Buffalo Club in 1995 has been recovered. “Sleep,” created more than a century ago by J. Carroll Beckwith, was identified last month at a Florida art show by an art historian for a New York City database that has helped locate millions of dollars worth of lost or stolen art.
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- [MSN] Insider theft; outsider theft. Treasure-troves at risk. Millions of valuable historical documents at local historical societies, state libraries and the National Archives are vulnerable to being stolen by insiders and outsiders.
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- [MSN] Wenn ein Kunstdieb beichtet ? Anlass ist eine ungewöhnliche Rückgabe von zwei Ku nstwerken mit einem Gesamtwert von rund 15.000 Euro , die ein Unbekannter am 14. Februar aus dem StadtmuseumSchabbellhaus gestohlen hatte.
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- [MSN] Trading in state treasures
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- [MSN] A BLANK CHEQUE TO PLUNDER NOK TERRA COTTA? (Kwame Opoku)
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- [MSN] Applications are being accepted for the position of Director of Security for a New England area cultural institution.
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- [MSN] The 2008 Global Candlelight Vigil for the Iraq Museum
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- [MSN] Bilderraub: Opel schon früher entdeckt
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- [MSN] Turtle sculpture stolen from Maui preserve
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- [MSN] United Arab Emirates. Smuggled antiques worth $6m seized at Sharjay Port
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- [MSN] British Museum and army team up in move to rescue Iraq's heritage
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- [MSN] Produkt informatie: watermist handblussers
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- [MSN] IFCPP ANNUAL MEETING 2008
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- [MSN] China. The United States is where the largest amount of smuggled Chinese cultural relics end up and its government should work faster toward preventing the illicit trade
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- [MSN] Police may be closing in on the military medal thieves after a series of raids in Auckland yesterday.
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- [MSN] Danger: artnapping!
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- [MSN] Art historian Erin Culbreth of The Art Loss Register finds stolen $80, 000 painting at Palm Beach fair.
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- [MSN] New Zealand. Medal-theft suspect jumps from building.
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- [MSN] Versteigerung zugunsten der Weimarer Anna Amalia Bibliothek
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- [MSN] UK. Two paintings belonging to the Government Art Collection have disappeared. One is a portrait of Sir William Chambers, the architect of Somerset House, which was painted by the English artist Francis Cotes in 1764. The other was Shipping (1821) by John Thomas Serres, another English painter.
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- [MSN] US. Art Special’ Turns Into Headache For Northfield Auctions Owner
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- [MSN] An 18th-century Japanese ivory toggle which had been stolen from a museum in Birmingham has been returned after an art expert spotted it in an auction catalogue in Germany.
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- [MSN] FW: Chinese urge MOU speedup
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- [MSN] US. Keeping a pig brings 24-year sentence. A Grand Junction man is being ordered to spend 24 years in prison for possessing a bronze pig statue taken from the city's Main Street.
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- [MSN] US. Highland seeks charges over destroyed diorama
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- [MSN] Jerusalem. Article on the latest damage to antiquities on the Temple Mount
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- [MSN] Judge rules dealers open to prosecution if cash paid and no questions asked. Art Loss Register assists with recovery of stolen paintings
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- [MSN] PRESS RELEASE: TRITON FOUNDATION APPOINTS PETER VAN BEVEREN AS CURATOR
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- [MSN] US. Authorities find a cache of stolen jewelry potentially worth hundreds of thousands near 118 Freeway. A man convicted in another robbery drew a map that led investigators to the valuables.
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- [MSN] Pakistan's stolen artifacts recovered in Italy. Almost 100 rare artifacts dating back as long ago as 4000 BC were brought illegally to Italy and discovered at a 2005 antiques fair. The items have been symbolically delivered to Pakistani Ambassador in Rome and would reach Pakistan in two months.
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- [MSN] Germany. Bild aus der Kapelle in Wolhusen gestohlen. Der materielle Wert ist gering. Der historische umso grösser.
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- [MSN] Austria. La controverse sur les oeuvres d'art juives volées rebondit à Vienne
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- [MSN] {Spam?} US. Developer seeks ownership of stolen paintings
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- [MSN] US. A judge is giving a former antiques dealer who staged fake appraisals on the PBS series "Antiques Roadshow" until next month to pay restitution for a Bucks County woman's heirlooms.
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- [MSN] Spain. El patrimonio religioso sufre dos nuevos robos de tallas barrocas
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- [MSN] Artist Rauschenberg sues over 'art' taken from his trash
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- [MSN] Hilliard auction house offers reward for stolen pottery. Thieves hijacked a load of American pottery from a Hilliard business this week by hitching a pickup to a white cargo trailer and driving off with it
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- [MSN] 1896 Work by Johann Dieter Wassmann calls into question claim that Ban Chiang Pottery was unknown before 1966
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