February 29, 2020

Flash Back to Restitutions: Remembering the Apulian dinos, 340-320 B.C.E. attributed to the Darius painter

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A long time ago, in a galaxy seemingly far far away, a red-figure 340-320 B.C.E. Apulian dinos, attributed to the Darius Painter, once ...
February 25, 2020

Mild prison sentences handed down in organized crime-related theft at the Bode Museum in Berlin

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When a giant gold coin, weighing 100 kilos was stolen from room 243 of the Bode Museum and carted off without a hitch in the early morn...
February 16, 2020

Christies Auction Identification and Restitution: A Roman Marble Sarcophagus Fragment of Sidmara Type

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Christie's, London, 4 December 2019 Catalog Cover and Lot 481 – Description Note:  This blog post has been revised with further in...
February 14, 2020

Charge of unlawful possession of items of cultural value has been added to existing charges against Vasil Bozhkov

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During a news briefing on Thursday, 13 February, Bulgarian authorities announced that they have added two additional charges to add to ...
February 13, 2020

19 profiles, posting to just one thread, within one private group, on one social media site. How many more are out there just like this one?

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Group Member 1 Two of 23 stucco buddhas that I took out from storage. Varying from 25 cm to 40 cm. in height. Purchased in the 90’s as M...
February 12, 2020

Convictions in the Nizam Museum Theft.

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Image Credit: Hyderabad Police Two burglars, Mohammed Mubeen (24) and Mohammed Ghouse Pasha (23), responsible for the jewelry theft fro...
February 11, 2020

The less than clear origins of fugitive Vasil Bozhkov's Thrace and Private Collection

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Vessel from the Panagyurishte Treasure As Bulgarian authorities work through how to get their fugitive gambling tzar extradited from t...
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February 2, 2020

Dick Drent returns to Amelia to teach "risk management and crime prevention in museum security” at ARCA's 2020 Postgraduate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection

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By Edgar Tijhuis This year, the ARCA Postgraduate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection will be held from May 28 through A...

Supreme Court Asked to Consider Legal Status of Famous Picasso Painting

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A petition for writ of certiorari has been filed asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling dismissing a case against New York’s Me...
January 31, 2020

Vasil Bozhkov's antiquities collection ordered to be seized by Bulgarian authorities

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The National Museum of History (NIM) has received a prosecutorial decree and a letter from the Ministry of Culture to seize and accept ...