Archive for December, 2008
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Roubo de obras raras no Museu Emilio Goeldi
Coleção especial formada por quase duas mil publicações guardam quatro séculos de história natural e etnográfica das Américas e Amazônia.
Criminosos furtam da Biblioteca da instituição in-folios, livros e coleções raras.
Foram subtraídos 40 títulos do acervo.
Agência Museu Goeldi- Na última semana, uma descoberta desagradável ...
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
BERNIE MADOFF A RIPOFF 'VICTIM'
By JAMES FANELLI and ANGELA MONTEFINISE
GONE: Bernie reported the theft of this $10,000 statue from his estate.
Links and images:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12282008/news/regionalnews/madoff_a_ripoff_victim_146174.htm
Swindler extraordinaire Bernard Madoff got a taste of his own medicine last weekend when a burglar stole a $10,000 statue from his posh, $9.4 million Palm Beach estate, ...
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
Von Johannes Hofstetter.
Wo sind die Bronzeskulpturen, die Bernhard Luginbühl gestohlen wurden? Ein Experte glaubt nicht an einen Auftragsdiebstahl.
Buchstäblich über Nacht geriet Mötschwil in die Schlagzeilen: Unbekannte drangen zwischen dem 11. und 12.Oktober in das Atelier von Bernhard Luginbühl ein und stahlen elf Bronzeskulpturen im Wert von mehreren hunderttausend Franken.
Von den ...
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
£5m raised to save Titian, but lack of tax breaks puts works worth billions at risk
Maev Kennedy
The Guardian, Monday 29 December 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/dec/29/tax-breaks-art-loans-titian
Before the new year, it is expected to be officially announced that Titian's Diana and Actaeon has been saved for the nation. The £50m price tag on the 500-year-old ...
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
ORIGINAL REPORT PLUS ALL IMAGES:
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2008/12/29/200812290041.asp
Dreadful flames swallowed Namdaemun, Korea's 600-year-old National Treasure No. 1, on Feb. 10, breaking the hearts of Koreans. As if in mourning over the loss of Korea's most artistic cultural asset, the Korean art industry itself was at a loss all year long.
Already strained by various ...
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Sunday, December 28th, 2008
Dear Museum Security Network subscribers,
We started this list December 1996, so this month we 'celebrate' our 12th anniversary. For those of you interested in going back to the beginning we invite you to visit the December 1996 - April 2003 archives at:
http://www.museum-security.org/artcrime.html
April 2003 I forwarded a Pravda, Moscow, report about ...
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
Call for return of Wallace letter
A call has been made for the only surviving document issued by William Wallace to be returned to Scotland.
The Lubeck Letter was sent by Wallace and Andrew Murray in 1297 to the mayors of Lubeck and Hamburg.
It was written following victory at the Battle of ...
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Friday, December 26th, 2008
I have just seen a video report of CNN on Zahi Hawass, the famous Egyptian archaeologist as interviewed and reported by CNN’s Ben Wedeman.
Once you look carefully and ponder on the activities and statements by Hawass, you simply have to conclude that the man is totally dedicated and committed to ...
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Friday, December 26th, 2008
EGYPTIAN archaeologists were in high spirits this week as a greywacke head of the 18th Dynasty King Amenhotep III was returned to Egypt after two decades of being shunted back and forth between Switzerland, Britain and the US, reports Nevine El-Aref.
The distinctive features, with full cheeks, wide, raised and slightly ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
* Legacy lost: Korea's missing treasures
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/t/499ba828cf3f8bdb?hl=en
* New Zealand. Waiouru museum theft. War medal lawyer's no-show annoys judge
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/t/420326e287536da2?hl=en
* Asia fights to stem loss of cultural treasures
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/t/2849325d6fa4e300?hl=en
* PAKISTAN Customs’ seiz- ure on Friday of two Buddha statues bound for China
once again brings to light the recurring issue of historical artefacts’
smuggling ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Looted ancient treasures recovered in Basra 'sting'.
Smugglers were planning to sell priceless artefacts stolen from museums to foreign collectors.
By Kim Sengupta in Basra.
Tuesday, 23 December 2008.
Ancient treasures stolen from museums in the anarchic aftermath of the United States-led invasion of Iraq five years ago have been found in Basra, in ...
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
«Wir haben nicht die Mittel, um vielen Sammlern Konkurrenz bieten zu können», sagte Eberhard «Dino» Frey, Saurierexperte des Staatlichen Museums für Naturkunde in Karlsruhe. Leidenschaftliche Sammler gebe es unter anderem in Japan und zunehmend auch in Dubai. «Die sammeln die Fossilien wie Kunstgegenstände.»
Dabei geht es keineswegs immer nur um den ...
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
‘Antiquity’ argues past belongs to all
By Claire McHale Milner
“Thy walls defac’d, thy mouldering shrines remov’d/ By British hands…”
With those words, Lord Byron, an ardent supporter of Greek independence, cried out against the British Museum’s acquisition of marble carvings removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin 200 years ago.
Demands for the ...
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Jessie Faulkner/The Times-Standard
Eureka Times Standard
Article Launched:12/20/2008 01:33:45 AM PST
http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_11277958
At the center of the investigation was a video the suspect created and subsequently posted on YouTube showing him digging at the village site within Patrick's Point State Park.
”It was a bragging video,” Hall said.
With a search warrant for YouTube, Hall was ...
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Kansas Cosmosphere flooded
By KSNW News. KSNW-TV. Dec. 19, 2008.
HUTCHINSON, KS - Friday, crews were busy cleaning up the Kansas Cosmosphere. Employees arrived Friday morning to find about one-third of the basement level of the space museum had flooded.
Staff immediately went to work securing the artifacts and documents in the collection, ...
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Indian Museum raided by CBI
A STAFF REPORTER
Indian Museum: Under scanner
Calcutta, Dec. 19: The CBI carried out raids on the Indian Museum and 16 other places spread over Calcutta and two other districts in Bengal on Friday night as part of a probe into allegations of corruption.
The agency’s anti-corruption wing had ...
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Artists say they just want their paintings back
Friday, December 19, 2008 | 8:02 AM
HAMMOND, Ind. -- Police are investigating the theft of four large paintings valued at $51,000 that were being stored in a former bank building in northwestern Indiana.
The largest of the paintings was 8 by 12 feet. They ...
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
■ La casa Binoche de París iba a subastar objetos precolombinos de Guerrero, Colima y Nayarit
■ La medida sienta precedente para que no se ofrezca patrimonio cultural, destaca el INAH
Estas son algunas de las piezas precolombinas procedentes de México que fueron incautadas cautelarmente por las autoridades de Francia
Foto: tomadas del ...
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
a cura di Valentina Braschi, il 18/12/2008
Un’importantissima stipe votiva, sconosciuta agli studiosi; preziose opere antiche rapinate ad un collezionista nel 2007; un mosaico romano in vendita su Internet. Sono questi i tre più importanti recuperi effettuati dal Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale grazie alle indagini e ai controlli svolti nell’anno ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
Associated Press - December 19, 2008 10:55 AM ET
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - State officials are checking damage after an overnight fire in the boiler room of the State Library in Pierre.
It happened on the first floor, where renovation work is being done.
Bureau of Administration Commissioner Jeff Bloomberg says sparks from ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
War medal lawyer's no-show annoys judge
Updated at 2:35pm on 19 December 2008
Courtroom arguments over the theft of prized war medals have been delayed after the lawyer of one of the accused failed to turn up at Wanganui District Court.
Judge Michael Radford said he was "singularly unimpressed" by defence counsel Chris ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
Thu Dec 18, 2008.
ROME (Reuters Life!) - A rare 9th century three-faced marble head of the Greek goddess Hecate was seized from a store in Rome's historic center after it was stolen by thieves last year, Italian police said on Wednesday.
The unusual bust was one of hundreds of stolen ancient ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
Smuggled ancient sculpture returns to Egypt
A priceless sculpture which was expertly smuggled out of Egypt disguised as a cheap souvenir of itself is to be returned home.
By Sarah Knapton.
19 Dec 2008.
The Head of Amenhotep III, a pharaoh who died in 1375BC, was stolen 18 years ago by a British smuggler.
Jonathan ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
+++disclaimer: the Museum Security Network only provides information about security techniques and is not responsible for the quality of these techniques. Ton Cremers+++
From: Boris Muchnik [mailto:BMuch...@accuhang.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:21 PM
To: El...@bruggemansolutions.com; toncrem...@museum-security.org
Subject: AccuHang antitheft technology
I am an inventor and manufacturer of the AccuHang- patented, wireless technology for ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
By Martin Bailey | From Web only | Posted: 18.12.08
LONDON. A Unesco mission has visited northern Iraq, with transport and security arranged by American troops. The specialists visited four key sites—Nimrud, Ninevah, Ashur and Hatra—and found no evidence of recent looting. This was the first Unesco inspection since the 2003 ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
First it was reported stolen; then it was reported to have been recovered. Then it was suggested that it had not been recovered but was still missing. And then a nasty murder seems to have crept into the usual toxic brew of museum-break-ins, rumour, counter-rumour and underworld goings-on. Meanwhile, the ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
Pair arrested for stealing fish metal sculpture
By Staff Report
Originally published 10:04 a.m., December 15, 2008
Updated 10:04 a.m., December 15, 2008
STUART — Two Port St. Lucie men were arrested on grand theft charges, after they were caught stealing the metal sculpture of a fish from outside the Stuart Heritage Museum early ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
A Mission to Get 'Stolen' Art Back From US Museum.
12-15-2008. By Bae Ji-sook. Staff Reporter.
A Seoul Metropolitan Council member and Buddhist monks will fly to the United States to seek to retrieve a cultural art piece that was stolen during Japanese colonial rule of Korea (1910-1945).
Council member Boo Doo-wan, Ven. ...
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
FORMAL DEMAND FOR THE RETURN OF BENIN BRONZES: WILL WESTERN MUSEUMS NOW
RETURN SOME OF THE LOOTED/STOLEN BENIN ARTEFACTS?
"The restitution of those cultural objects which our museums and
collections, directly or indirectly, possess thanks to the colonial system
and are now being demanded, must also not be postponed with cheap arguments
and tricks."
See full ...
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
* Nineteen boxes of Bruce Springsteen memorabilia worth about $30,000 were returned to the Asbury Park Public Library shortly after noon Thursday, providing intermediary relief to a feud that had led the library to file a police complaint to get approximate - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/t/a068d33909523aab?hl=en
* FW: Saint ...
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
* Israel: Antiquities Thief Caught Red Handed - But Thousands Succeed - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/t/f9acffe2f5a85379?hl=en
* Antwerpen: medewerker afdeling musea verdacht van diefstal uit museumbibliotheek - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/t/e6b4154cdc6f3570?hl=en
* IMPORTANT PRESS RELEASE: Germany Receives Significant Holocaust-related Art Claim in Decorative Arts. - 1 messages, 1 ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Avignon, France – December 9, 2008 – Régine Elkan, a French national residing near Avignon, France, filed a large Holocaust-related art claim with the Coordination Office for Lost Cultural Assets (Koordinierungsstelle fur Kulturgurverluste), a German government body in charge of Nazi-looted art claims. The claim involves a prestigious ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
-----Original Message-----
From: africom-l-bounces@list.africom.museum [mailto:africom-l-bounces@list.africom.museum] On Behalf Of Henry Cheruiyot
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 2:15 PM
To: AFRICOM-L@list.africom.museum
Subject: [AFRICOM-L] RESTITUTION OF STOLEN AFRICAN CULTURAL OBJECTS
27 November 2008
By Kigongo Remigius
Uganda
RESTITUTION OF STOLEN AFRICAN CULTURAL OBJECTS
This is an intellectual debate that needs a comprehensive research before we pass our judgments. However, I would think ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Museum Security Network
museum-security-network@googlegroups.com
Today's topics:
* http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/t/94da0df380309261?hl=en
* Brazilian rare book's thief sentenced
* More than 60 years after the end of World War II, disputes over war booty rage on as Germany seeks, with mixed success, the return of treasures looted by the victorious Red Army
* CBI sleuths visit Visva Bharati ...
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
12/03/2008 12h49
The Federal Public Ministry in Rio de Janeiro (MPF / RJ) won in court the conviction of Laessio Rodrigues de Oliveira to five years in prison for theft of rare books from the library of the Institute for Research Botanical Garden in Rio de Janeiro.
Five years ago, he stole ...
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