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<p>[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 8090691, member: 75525"]I am not sure how many here have followed this, but it is worth googling: <i>US billionaire surrenders $70m of stolen art</i>, and you will have several minutes of interesting reading. Quotes from one article:</p><blockquote><p>Michael Steinhardt, one of the world’s largest collectors of ancient art, “displayed a rapacious appetite for plundered artefacts”, the district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr said on Monday.</p><p>The seized pieces lacked verifiable provenance prior to appearing on the international art market... Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and Turkey.</p><p>Prof Christos Tsirogiannis, a leading archaeologist, has identified more than 1,550 looted artefacts within auction houses, commercial galleries, private collections and museums. </p></blockquote><p>some pics from the article - </p><p>[ATTACH]1406088[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1406089[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1406090[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1406091[/ATTACH] </p><p>I liked the briefcase of cash in the article. Mr. Steinhardt looks too happy to be handing over his stuff. I bet none of the fund transfers were in US paper money.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1406092[/ATTACH] </p><p>I wonder if Italy should return all of the stuff the Roman armies confiscated as victors.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-billionaire-surrenders-70m-of-stolen-art/ar-AARyvpH?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-billionaire-surrenders-70m-of-stolen-art/ar-AARyvpH?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531" rel="nofollow">US billionaire surrenders $70m of stolen art (msn.com)</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/york-billionaire-surrenders-stolen-antiquities-worth-70-million/story?id=81587527" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/york-billionaire-surrenders-stolen-antiquities-worth-70-million/story?id=81587527" rel="nofollow">New York billionaire surrenders stolen antiquities worth $70M - ABC News (go.com)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The lines between heroes, villains and regular folks can be blurry. How many of us here have culturally important stuff with no acceptable & verifiable provenance?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 8090691, member: 75525"]I am not sure how many here have followed this, but it is worth googling: [I]US billionaire surrenders $70m of stolen art[/I], and you will have several minutes of interesting reading. Quotes from one article: [INDENT]Michael Steinhardt, one of the world’s largest collectors of ancient art, “displayed a rapacious appetite for plundered artefacts”, the district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr said on Monday. The seized pieces lacked verifiable provenance prior to appearing on the international art market... Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and Turkey. Prof Christos Tsirogiannis, a leading archaeologist, has identified more than 1,550 looted artefacts within auction houses, commercial galleries, private collections and museums. [/INDENT] some pics from the article - [ATTACH]1406088[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1406089[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1406090[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1406091[/ATTACH] I liked the briefcase of cash in the article. Mr. Steinhardt looks too happy to be handing over his stuff. I bet none of the fund transfers were in US paper money. [ATTACH=full]1406092[/ATTACH] I wonder if Italy should return all of the stuff the Roman armies confiscated as victors. [URL='https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-billionaire-surrenders-70m-of-stolen-art/ar-AARyvpH?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531']US billionaire surrenders $70m of stolen art (msn.com)[/URL] [URL='https://abcnews.go.com/International/york-billionaire-surrenders-stolen-antiquities-worth-70-million/story?id=81587527']New York billionaire surrenders stolen antiquities worth $70M - ABC News (go.com)[/URL] The lines between heroes, villains and regular folks can be blurry. How many of us here have culturally important stuff with no acceptable & verifiable provenance?[/QUOTE]
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