Archive for June, 2010
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Hollis woman sentenced for $1.3m theft
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Hollis+woman+sentenced+for+%241.3m+theft&articleId=3df55393-d79e-4a42-9072-a20e9df895cc
By CLYNTON NAMUO
New Hampshire Union Leader Correspondent
HOLLIS – A local woman was sentenced to three to five years in prison in Massachusetts on Monday after pleading guilty to charges she embezzled more than $1.3 million from her former employer, a museum in Harvard, Mass.
Peggy ...
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
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http://www.buanews.gov.za/news/10/10063012551002
Date: 30 Jun 2010
Title: FIFA confirms trophy theft
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Johannesburg - After conflicting media reports, FIFA confirmed on Wednesday that seven replica trophies valued at ?2100 (about R2100) each, were stolen from the football body's Johannesburg offices.
But spokesperson Nicolas Maingot however added that no ...
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Nearly 500 Kuwaiti artefacts remain missing after war
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100630/FOREIGN/706299859/1140
James Calderwood, Foreign Correspondent
• Last Updated: June 30. 2010 12:45AM UAE / June 29. 2010 8:45PM GMT
Nawaf al Failakawi of the Kuwait National Museum shows some of the recovered items. Gustavo Ferrari / The National
KUWAIT CITY // War reparations and the exchange ...
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
Stolen Caravaggio work recovered in Germany
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2010/06/28/caravaggio-recovered-theft.html
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A valuable Caravaggio painting stolen two years ago in Ukraine has been recovered in a joint effort by German and Ukrainian authorities, police announced in Berlin on Monday.
The large chiaroscuro painting, known as The ...
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
Pickaxe raid nets £20,000 worth of antiques
http://www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk/news/Pickaxe-raid-nets-163-20-000-worth-antiques/article-2338751-detail/article.html
RAIDED: Jenny Butcher, owner of Antique Elegance on West Street, which was burgled on June 13 Photo No: RSMak210610-F01 by Alec Kingham
RAIDERS drove off with £20,000 worth of stolen items in the fourth major theft in Dorking's antiques hub this year.
Six prized paintings ...
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Saturday, June 26th, 2010
Iraq’s Ancient Ruins Face New Looting
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/world/middleeast/26looting.html
Holly Pickett for The New York Times
Local Bedouin tribesmen at a looted Sumerian tomb, one of hundreds of illegal digging sites at an ancient Sumerian city buried near the Iraqi village of Dhahir.
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
Published: June 25, 2010
DHAHIR, Iraq — The looting of ...
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Saturday, June 26th, 2010
Stolen clock recovered after owners saw it for sale on eBay
http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/8240112.Stolen_clock_recovered_after_owners_saw_it_for_sale_on_eBay/
3:17pm Friday 25th June 2010
By Andy Woolfoot »
A RARE antique clock stolen from a home in Cirencester was recovered after its owners spotted it for sale on eBay.
Jackie Shopland-Reed, who lives in Lancashire, told the Standard the Liberty Clock ...
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Tomb raiders unearth new marketplace
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-06-23-tomb-raiders-china_N.htm
By Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY
ANYANG, China — The old warlord, infamous for backstabbing and bloodletting, can hardly complain. When Chinese state television broadcast a live excavation this month of the tomb of General Cao Cao, the destruction found inside confirmed that tomb robbers had beaten ...
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
140-year-old statue stolen from convent
http://www.themonitor.com/articles/strong-40145-tip-convent.html
June 23, 2010 8:04 PM Ildefonso Ortiz The Brownsville Herald GOT A TIP? Anyone with information about the theft of the statue is asked to call Brownsville Police Crime Stoppers at (956) 546-8477. BROWNSVILLE —
Two lit candles remain inside an orange brick grotto where the ...
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Tomb raiders and destruction of history
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2010-06/23/c_13364449.htm
English.news.cn 2010-06-23 09:04:27
BEIJING, June 23 (Xinhaunet) -- As a foreign scholar of Chinese archeology, when asked if ancient tombs like that of the historical figure, general Cao Cao (AD 155 - 220), of the Three Kingdoms period (AD 220-280), or of Qin ...
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
2 'Blue Dog' paintings recovered; police search for art thief
http://www.wwltv.com/news/crime/2-Blue-Dog-paintings-recovered-police-search-for-art-thief-96940719.html
by WWLTV.com
Posted on June 22, 2010 at 8:20 PM
Updated yesterday at 10:34 PM
NEW ORLEANS – Police have recovered two Blue Dog paintings and are now looking for a suspect who allegedly took them from George Rodrigue’s gallery.
Less than 24 hours ...
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Kelso man reports theft of Stradivarius violin
http://tdn.com/news/local/article_7ec05cf8-7e5c-11df-9aed-001cc4c03286.html
By Leslie Slape / The Daily News | Posted: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 6:00 pm | No Comments Posted
A Kelso man told police a Stradivarius violin, made in 1722 and handed down through his family for more than a century, was stolen from ...
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Librarian tells of shock at discovery of priceless stolen book
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Librarian-tells-of-shock-at.6375164.jp
Published Date: 22 June 2010
By Hugh Macknight
A LIBRARIAN described in court yesterday the "heart-dropping" moment he realised a first edition of Shakespeare's works that he had been asked to authenticate was a priceless text stolen a decade earlier.
Staff at the ...
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Kuwait's lost treasures: how stolen riches remain central to rift with Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/21/kuwait-lost-treasures-stolen-riches-rift-iraq
Hundreds of artefacts were plundered during Gulf war, and project to repatriate them is ongoing
Martin Chulov in Kuwait
guardian.co.uk, Monday 21 June 2010 22.09 BST
The Kuwait National Museum is still trying to trace 487 priceless artefacts looted after Saddam ...
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Jewell thiefs targets Birmingham Museum - but the Staffordshire Hoard is safe
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2010/06/22/jewell-thiefs-targets-birmingham-museum-but-the-staffordshire-hoard-is-safe-97319-26697074/
Jun 22 2010 by Neil Elkes, Birmingham Mail
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A BURGLAR stole three pieces of Indian Jewellery from a display case at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
But luckily the sneak thief missed out on the larger prize, items ...
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Swords stolen from Pacific War Museum
http://www.guampdn.com/article/20100622/NEWS01/6220308/Swords-stolen-from-Pacific-War-Museum
By Dionesis Tamondong • Pacific Daily News • June 22, 2010
The family of the late Marine Corps veteran and advocate John Gerber is asking for the public's help in recovering three swords stolen from the Pacific War Museum.
The Asan museum, which was founded by ...
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
Cleveland Museum of Art's Apollo sculpture is a star with intriguing past
http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/06/cleveland_museum_of_arts_apoll.html
Published: Sunday, June 20, 2010, 12:00 AM
Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer
Lisa DeJong, The Plain DealerThe Cleveland Museum of Art believes its ancient bronze sculpture âApollo Sauroktonos, "Apollo the Lizard-Slayer," may be the only original bronze in the world ...
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Sunday, June 20th, 2010
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Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Italian police recover stolen art
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=nw20100619115143479C667796
June 19 2010 at 11:58AM
Rome - Italian police recovered 14 paintings and sculptures, including works by De Chirico and Kandinsky, worth an estimated 30 million euros (37 million dollars), and arrested two people for receiving stolen goods, the Italian news agency Ansa reported Saturday.
The art ...
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Saturday, June 19th, 2010
Mistaken identities
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/jun/19/close-examination-national-gallery-lisa-jardine
Nothing is more exciting to a biographer than the 'discovery' of a 'missing' portrait of their subject. But all too often, in their eagerness for new material, even scholars can be duped. Fortunately, scientific methods are making it easier to spot the fakes, as the National Gallery's new ...
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Saturday, June 19th, 2010
Stolen Shakespeare folio is given its day in court
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/stolen-shakespeare-folio-is-given-its-day-in-court-2004770.html
By Hugh Macknight
Saturday, 19 June 2010
A valuable Shakespeare first edition stolen from Durham university library in 1998 was displayed in public for the first time in a decade today.
The 387-year-old relic, which is at the centre of an international intrigue involving a ...
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
Art forgeries: does it matter if you can’t spot an original?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/7824999/Art-forgeries-does-it-matter-if-you-cant-spot-an-original.html
Some argue that it is irrelevant who painted a picture, it’s the quality that counts. But, as a fascinating new exhibition sets out to explore fakery in art, Martin Gayford begs to differ.
By Martin Gayford
Published: 1:59PM BST 17 Jun 2010
After ...
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
Jobless man 'mutilated' stolen Shakespeare folio
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/7835878/Jobless-man-mutilated-stolen-Shakespeare-folio.html
A jobless book dealer who posed as a wealthy international playboy "mutilated" a rare Shakespeare first folio to disguise the fact that it was stolen, a court heard.
By Richard Savill
Published: 4:37PM BST 17 Jun 2010
Rare book dealer Raymond Scott arriving at Newcastle Crown Court ...
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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Flashy book dealer in limo for Shakespeare trial
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iybh3XBGozJtVAUTu0P...
(AP) – 21 hours ago
LONDON — A flashy British book dealer accused of stealing a rare first edition of Shakespeare's plays appeared for trial Wednesday in a silver limousine, sporting a Panama hat and flashing victory signs at reporters.
Raymond Scott was accused ...
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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Thieves make off with 7ft topless mermaid statue carved from wood
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Thieves-make-topless-7ft-mermaid-statue-carved-wood/article-2310598-detail/article.html
The half-ton wooden mermaid.
A BUXOM 7ft mermaid weighing almost half a tonne has been stolen from a Lincolnshire artist.
The mermaid was made by an Australian woman who specialises in creating page three-style pieces during a competition in the UK.
The statuesque ...
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Police investigating high-value thefts
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/182824-police-investigating-high-value-th...
Series of incidents across Tayside region being investigated by officers.
15 June 2010 11:10 GMT
Police are investigating a series of high-value thefts across the Tayside region.
Officers in Angus are appealing for information after two Chinese Satsuma vases were stolen from the garage of a house in Keithhall ...
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Missing statue reunited with owner
http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_e2f17...
By Bennett Hall, Gazette-Times reporter | Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 6:22 pm | 1 Comment
‘Exaltation’ has been recovered and returned to its owner. (Contributed photo)
A valuable statue stolen by burglars last month has found its way home and four suspects are under arrest, thanks ...
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
DOJ absolves 14 NPC officers of Manansala mural theft
http://dateline.ph/?p=13428
By DateLine Philippines
Posted on Jun. 16, 2010 at 6:43pm |
MANILA, Philippines – Justice Secretary Alberto Agra has ordered the dropping of a criminal complaint filed against 14 officers of the National Press Club (NPC) in connection with the sale of the Vicente ...
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Statue of reading boy stolen from Allen library
http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Sculpture-of-reading-boy-stolen-from-Allen-library-96323939.html
by JONATHAN BETZ
WFAA
Posted on June 14, 2010 at 5:00 PM
Updated yesterday at 11:39 PM
ALLEN — For years, a sculpture of a boy nicknamed "Tommy" has been an inspiration to thousands of North Texas children.
The statue was a gift to the Allen Public ...
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Authorities recover stolen Hindu statue
http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12648333
Associated Press - June 14, 2010 6:54 PM ET
CAPSHAW, Ala. (AP) - Limestone County investigators have recovered 1 of 2 giant statues of winged demigods stolen from the entrance to a Hindu Temple in Capshaw.
Limestone Sheriff's Capt. Stanley McNatt says a man was mowing a ...
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Sunday, June 13th, 2010
Confiscated relics submitted to ICHTO
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=130151§ionid=351020105
Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:06:39 GMT
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Over 6 tons of relics were confiscated from Argentine diplomat Sebastian Zavala.
The Persian relics confiscated from an Argentinean diplomat last year have been submitted to Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization.
Over 6 tons of handcrafts and relics ...
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Sunday, June 13th, 2010
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Sunday, June 13th, 2010
'I posed as an agent for a wheeler-dealer'
http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/interview_i-posed-as-an-agent-for-a-wheeler-dealer_1395617
Sunday, June 13, 2010 0:54 IST
What has been your most exciting experience as an art detective?
On September 1, 1993, I was acting as an undercover cop portraying myself as a middleman for Middle Eastern wheeler-dealers. A Belgian gendarme was posing as my ...
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Saturday, June 12th, 2010
Value of public art in vandalism cases an unclear issue
http://www.semissourian.com/story/1641745.html
Friday, June 11, 2010
By Erin Hevern ~ Southeast Missourian
Paul Schock stands next to his sculpture with a panel missing due to vandalism.
(Fred Lynch)
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For Scott City artist and businessman Paul Schock, putting up a second sculpture ...
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Saturday, June 12th, 2010
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Friday, June 11th, 2010
Conn. court rules in feud over Rockwell paintings
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iG3bO40aNHIK-CoReXL...
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN (AP) – 10 hours ago
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The Connecticut Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of two brothers in their long-running feud with a third brother over an inheritance that included famous Norman Rockwell paintings.
The state's high ...
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