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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lolli, post: 5410782, member: 96900&quot;]If you enter &quot;royal athena gallery looted&quot; in google search you will find many matches showing ancient objects which were offered or sold by them and which were looted or stolen form museums etc and later sized and repatriated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just some examples</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>Another looted conflict antiquity from the Temple of Eshmun in Sidon, Lebanon seized. This time at Royal Athena Galleries in New York</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2020/06/another-looted-conflict-antiquity-from.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2020/06/another-looted-conflict-antiquity-from.html" rel="nofollow">https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2020/06/another-looted-conflict-antiquity-from.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>Auction Alert and Antiquities Seizure: Second seizure at Royal-Athena Galleries, New York </b></font></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2017/02/auction-alert-and-antiquities-seizure.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2017/02/auction-alert-and-antiquities-seizure.html" rel="nofollow">https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2017/02/auction-alert-and-antiquities-seizure.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>Repatriation: Stolen Greek sarcophagus fragment heading home </b></font></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2017/01/auction-alert-and-seizure-royal-athena.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2017/01/auction-alert-and-seizure-royal-athena.html" rel="nofollow">https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2017/01/auction-alert-and-seizure-royal-athena.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://heritage-lost-eaa.com/2017/01/08/illicit-antiquity-in-royal-athena-galleries-new-york/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://heritage-lost-eaa.com/2017/01/08/illicit-antiquity-in-royal-athena-galleries-new-york/" rel="nofollow">https://heritage-lost-eaa.com/2017/01/08/illicit-antiquity-in-royal-athena-galleries-new-york/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b><a href="https://chasingaphrodite.com/2012/01/24/new-wave-of-returns-hundreds-of-looted-antiquities-recovered-from-the-met-princeton-and-others/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://chasingaphrodite.com/2012/01/24/new-wave-of-returns-hundreds-of-looted-antiquities-recovered-from-the-met-princeton-and-others/" rel="nofollow">New Wave of Returns: Hundreds of Looted Antiquities Recovered from the Met, Princeton and Others</a></b></font></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://chasingaphrodite.com/tag/royal-athena-gallery/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://chasingaphrodite.com/tag/royal-athena-gallery/" rel="nofollow">https://chasingaphrodite.com/tag/royal-athena-gallery/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Corinth Antiquities Returned</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><a href="https://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/corinth/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/corinth/" rel="nofollow">https://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/corinth/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="4">Jerome Eisenberg returns antiquities: new deal with Italy </font></b></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2007/11/jerome-eisenberg-returns-antiquities.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2007/11/jerome-eisenberg-returns-antiquities.html" rel="nofollow">https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2007/11/jerome-eisenberg-returns-antiquities.html</a></font></p><p><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></p><p><b><font size="4">and so on</font></b></p><p><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></p><p><b><font size="4">There is a huge problem that many fake, looted or stolen artifacts have fake pedigrees and other aution houses and dealers have the same problems if it comes to verification of provenances, they either can not or do not want or do not care.</font></b></p><p><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></p><p><b><font size="4">Goryn and Mosch have sold an Antonia Minor, which had fake pedigree and was stolen in Spain, it is really annoying how easily pedigrees can be invented/faked. The sale was legal if it comes to Germany law so Gorny did not do anything wrong, but goverment was involved and at the end the <b>Antonia Minor</b> was repatriated, not doing this would have harmed reputation of Germany. </font></b></p><p><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></p><p><b><font size="4"><a href="https://www.newsylist.com/tag/art-theft/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.newsylist.com/tag/art-theft/" rel="nofollow">https://www.newsylist.com/tag/art-theft/</a></font></b></p><p><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></p><p><b><font size="4"><a href="https://www.archyde.com/spain-recovers-in-germany-a-roman-bust-stolen-in-2010-in-bornos/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.archyde.com/spain-recovers-in-germany-a-roman-bust-stolen-in-2010-in-bornos/" rel="nofollow">https://www.archyde.com/spain-recovers-in-germany-a-roman-bust-stolen-in-2010-in-bornos/</a></font></b></p><p><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></p><p><b><font size="4"><a href="https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/illegaler-antikenhandel-antonia-minor-spanien-muenchen-1.5152187" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/illegaler-antikenhandel-antonia-minor-spanien-muenchen-1.5152187" rel="nofollow">https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/illegaler-antikenhandel-antonia-minor-spanien-muenchen-1.5152187</a>&nbsp; </font></b></p><p><b><font size="4"><br /></font></b></p><p><b></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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