1998 reports

• December 29, 1998
  - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Erik Mansoor)
  - Arts Club members in frame over UKPounds:1m theft (Electronic Telegraph)
  - Art thieves plunder East for Western collectors (Electronic Telegraph)
  - Despite Critics, Nazi Loot Hunt Is Right & Proper
  
• December 28, 1998
  - Restoration 'has ruined Last Supper'
  - A guard, a guard, my kingdom for a guard (Steve Keller)
  - Getting to the bottom of split statue (Boston Museum of Fine Arts)
  - Paper links Boston museum to looted antiquities
  - Chicago Gallery Theft (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  
• December 27, 1998
  New MFA link seen to looted artifacts; Scholars cite works acquired since 1984
  
• December 25, 1998
  - A New Article on Cultural Institution Value Methodology
  - New member requesting info!
  - France protected Vichy officials who profited from Jewish assets
  - A guard, a guard, my kingdom for a guard (RE: stolen Shakespeare folio)
  - Fish Museum Protest Turns Ugly
  - discussion of Y2K and museums? (Jason A. Staloff)
  - Historic Building Code
  - Brazil searches for Nazi-looted works of art
  - WJC Suspects France Will Retain 2,000 Looted Artworks
  - Serbs demand their 'share' of rare Sarajevo Haggadah
  - Re: A guard, a guard, my kingdom for a guard (stolen Shakespeare folio; four messages)
  
• December 20, 1998
  - Museum Security Network and mailinglist two years on line
  - Iraq says museum, college came under U.S. attack
  - Stolen pictures returned to Ukraine from Britain
  - UKPounds:1m Shakespeare folio stolen in university raid
  - Suspended term for activist (The Press, New Zealand)
  - Doubts raised on Monet plaque (Walter Robinson)
  - 1954 The Hague Convention website (John Piper)
  - Smithsonian note (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - 25th Annual International Conference on Museum Security (ICMS)
  
• December 18, 1998
  - Dawn raid nabs Lindsay painting (Sydney Morning Herald)
  - La Fenice's silence is the same old song in Italy (Richard Owen)
  - International Journal of Cultural Property
  - SA's heritage crumbles away. National cultural treasures are falling into wrack and ruin
  - Sculpture of hope ruined by graffiti (Times of London)
  - Coins of contention; Turkey battles to recover ancient trove of silver
  - Hunt for stolen Birmingham photos reaches Web
  - In search of Nazi plunder; Loyola professor tracks art looted during the Holocaust
  
• December 13, 1998
  - Resumes Invited for Security Management Position
  - motion detectors
  - unique identification of museum objects
  - International Cultural Property Protection Website
  - Strike to shut down Greek museums, sites
  - 'Baron' held in stolen art inquiry
  - Feds Stop Sale of $5M Moon Rock
  - ALR & Washington Conference (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - Monet painting's disputed past may keep it out of London show
  - Stolen art can turn up in the most unlikely places
  - Umbrella Man was an art dealer and computer ace
  - Stolen Sutler Trailer
  - Louvre, Grand Palais museums closed in Paris because of strike
  
• December 6, 1998
  - Freeze Drying (Duncan Campbell)
  - Security and People Counters
  - Conference Agrees On Guidelines For Nazi-Looted Art
  - Belgian filmmaker rules against Prague on picture
  - Albright talks of blood and balance at Holocaust conference
  - Pompidou center has looted Picasso
  - Stolen Art update (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - Very important sample of Helicoprion bessonovi "holotipe" stolen
  
• December 5, 1998
  - Re: stolen painting sold in Stockholm (Clifford Scheiner)
  - Chirac Wants France To Keep Art Nazis Looted
  - Feathered Fake Cloaked Peruvian Museum Theft
  - Repentant Robbers Leave Cloak In Confessional
  - Master lists (Dorothy Shinn)
  - Meeting on Nazi loot opens in D.C.
  - Museum sued by Jews over Braque 'theft'
  - French museum says it is owner of Nazi-seized art
  - object security (Jill Wertheim)
  - Russia Said Willing To Help On Holocaust Era Art
  - Iraq museum shrouds its treasures (stolen antiquities intercepted by security forces)
  
• December 1, 1998
  - Stolen Mondrian painting found in Antwerp
  - When Art Hits the Road, Moving Priceless Treasures Calls for Maximum Security
  - Italian police recover stolen Canaletto painting
  - Monet in MFA show believed Nazi plunder (Walter Robinson)
  
• November 29, 1998
  - Stolen Swedish painting sold for 2.9 mln crowns
  - Following in stolen dinosaur footprints
  - Foreign legislation
  - Painting Lost in Holocaust Resurfaces in Dutch Ambassador to Israel's Official Residence
  - Monet painting's past left unexplained by MFA
  - Courtauld offers reward for lost paintings
  
• November 26, 1998
  - Rare Copernicus book stolen from Polish library (second theft in eastern Europe this year of a copy of ``De Revolutionibus'')
  - Paris has a fresh look at The Kiss (stolen by the Nazis and never reclaimed)
  - France lends out art Nazis looted (museums have for 50 years been routinely sending abroad for exhibit art masterworks that were looted by the Nazis)
  - Fire in Structure Being Converted to University Fine Arts Building (William Heidecker)
  
• November 25, 1998
  - educational video for fire protection of cultural properties (Linda Swenson Stoppacher)
  - Fire damage to paintings (Alan Phenix)
  - Prince faces Marbles row in Athens
  - Marbles lose out to God and mammon in great Greek debate
  - 'Playboy cop' exposes art fraud riddle
  - Additional info re V&A theft
  - searching for foreign legislation (Amalie Weidner)
  - -RE: Student needing info (Richard Viola)
  - what else- sprinklers (Thomas Dixon)
  - WWII / Holocaust Stolen Art; Part III. Restitution Efforts (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  
• November 22, 1998
  - re: "Focus on Security" (David Liston)
  - WW/Holocaust Stolen Art (Part II. Stolen Art Lists; Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - ABORIGINES MOURN THEFT OF RARE ROCK CARVING
  
• November 20, 1998
  - Sprinkler thoughts, apologies, explanation, Steve Keller (read this, Ton Cremers)
  - Sprinklers etc. (Ross Brand)
  - Re: MSN Exchange re Sprinklers Date (William Heidecker)
  - Collector faces fraud charges over stolen art
  - Scots return Wounded Knee shirt (British Museum said the move would have no effect on its refusal to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece)
  - Student needing info (Felicia Peterson)
  - Re: sprinklers (Robin Rogers)
  - "Focus on Security"
  
• November 19, 1998
  - Theft From Courtauld Art Gallery (Geoff Goodrich)
  - Sprinkler discussions (Tom Dixon)
  - Information response (Ken Vail)
  - MSN Exchange re Sprinklers (William A. Heidecker)
  - Re: MSN Exchange re Sprinklers (Robin Rogers)
  - RE: more emotional responses on MSN (David Liston)
  - WWII / Holocaust Stolen Art (Part 1 - History; Jonathan Sazonoff)
  
• November 18, 1998
  - Automatic Sprinklers Date (William A. Heidecker)
  - Hunt Launched For Looted Nazi Art Treasures
  - Sensormatic Urges Heart Patients and Doctors to Read New Advisory on Anti-Theft Systems
  - Paris denies blame in looting Jewish property
  - ICMS (ICOM Security) website
  - Response to Response
  
• November 17, 1998
  - Paris museum staff keep Van Gogh-Millet show shut
  - Austria forced to face Nazi theft record
  - Staff warn of plans to scrap weekend and night patrols at depot, reports Dalya Alberge (Times of London, V&A Museum)
  - Report of theft of Korean ceramics (Soeren M. Chr. Bisgaard)
  - Yet..yet more Sprinkler Thoughts ( Robin Rogers)
  - Recovery of Stolen and Looted Works of Art - London 10 December 1998
  
• November 15, 1998
  RE: Yet More Sprinkler System Thoughts (Ken Vail)
  
• November 14, 1998, part II
  - Spycam-11 directly connects through phone lines to pc and connects directly to wall outlet (demo can be downloaded)
  - Shirt relic doesn't belong to Glasgow, says Sioux (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Three artworks stolen from Courtauld (Times of London)
  - RE: Sprinkler System Thoughts (Steve Keller)
  
• November 14, 1998
  - writing a dissertation on stolen cultural property
  - Staff at Paris museum strike over packed art show
  - More Sprinkler System Thoughts (William A. Heidecker)
  
• November 12, 1998
  - Artist says 'poor' fakes sold well (Universal Time)
  - Sensormatic Adds Perspective to Media Reports About Anti-Theft Systems and Implanted Medical Devices
  - for museumsecurity list: 1998/99 edition of Disaster Recovery Sourcebook
  - Honduran damage
  - request, research on stolen cultural properties
  - The library is burning
  - Stolen Stradivarius Violins (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - Sprinkler System Thoughts (David Wexler)
  - Steve Keller to write a section of the Encarta interactive electronic encyclopedia dealing with motion detectors and security
  - motion detector inquiry (Steve Keller)
  - Two Constables are stolen from V&A Museum (Daily Telegraph)
  
• November 10, 1998
  - Hunt still on for stolen painting (Sunday Times South Africa)
  - NEW SCURITY CHIEF APPOINTED (Seattle Art Museum)
  - response to steve kellers remarks (Dorit Straus)
  - Hot on the trail of stolen artwork (JOE DIRCK THE PLAIN DEALER)
  - INT-LAW Re: Holocaust Asset Litigation - US Fed court materials
  - Re Article "Museum Behavior" (Paul Smith)
  - Risk Assessment & Fire Protection Pertaining to Cultural Objects
  - Sprinkler systems (Roger Wulff)
  - Sprinkler systems ( Gregor Trinkaus-Randall)
  - Steve Keller comments on Paul Smith's message
  - Judge will decide who owns the art
  - 'Raffles' gang plunder Venice palaces
  - hosts/security guards (Ton Veld)
  - Re Steve Keller's message (Paul Smith)
  - Report from Rutgers (Art, Antiquities, and the Law conference)
  - Brazilian commission hunts for artworks looted by Nazis
  - commenting on host/guard issue (Michelle Lehrman)
  - Security, query about motion detector (Barbara Batson)
  - Honduras This Week Online--Special Update on Tropical Storm Mitch (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - Fire Hits Landmark Italian Palace (Jack Sullivan)
  - Austria approves restitution of Nazi art loot
  - List Reveals Names of Nazi-Era Art Looters
  - UKPounds: 2m Stradivarius stolen from home of violinist
  - (Miami Herald) FBI seizes painting from auction house
  - (Russia Today) Missing Chagall Works Puzzle Belarus
  - France publishes catalogue of art Nazis stole
  - Re: Security, query about motion detector
  
• October 24, 1998
  - Museum Theft a Federal Offense (FBI SA Robert K. Wittman)
  - Plundered artifacts returned to Peru
  - Drawing fools Leonardo expert (Times of London) - Taxpayers charged for art (Times of London)
  - V&A vase found in the left luggage (two days missing without anyone noticing; Times of London)
  - Seminar on disaster response (Cathie Jilovsky)
  - Workshop on disaster response (Cathie Jilovsky)
  - INTERPOL (USNCB) reciently updated cultural property website
  - visitors explaining why they should not touch works of art
  - Library vandal; Man pleads to ripping blank pages from books
  - query: name of the person who recently hit and damaged Michaelangelo's Pieta In the Vatican.
  - special agent robert wittman (Richard J. Viola)
  - RE: V&A vase found in the left luggage (Richard J. Viola)
  - Stolen Bones - Paleontology ( Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - looking for security methods/devices (Henry Villerot)
  - Museum Behavior (Dorothy Shinn)
  - French grave robbers return Neolithic booty (Times of London)
  - Thieves loot prehistoric tomb (BBC online)
  - Regarding the art theft at the V&A
  - museum theft cases (J Piper)
  - Italian government has now posted major stolen art works
  - Garbage fire damages ancient palace in old Cairo
  - Canaletto painting stolen in Venice
  - RE:Dominic Kennedy Article on the stolen V & A vase (Steve Keller)
  - Query: Disaster planning in museums
  - FBI recovers Pissarro painting believed stolen 20 years ago
  
• October 11, 1998
  - Richard Viola
  - http://www.percell.co.uk (database thefts)
  - New Security Museum Product (ShatterGard)
  - Moderator's message about sending personal and/or classified information to the list
  - Workshop on disaster preparedness
  - Rischel Response to Viola Report (Richard J. Viola)
  - Artifacts shrouded in mystery (Miami Herald)
  - ICOM Annual Meeting has started (Ton Cremers)
  - Philadelphia Museum theft (Marjorie Searl)
  - China court condemns four fresco thieves to death
  - Looted jewellery returned (Times of London)
  - Re: theft of displayed firearms (Gary Robert Yee)
  - Antique, Art Robbery = $50,000.00 Reward!
  - Re: (Firearms:exhibition) Availability of information to the public (Denny Hair)>br>
• October 7, 1998
  - Art heist at SA National Gallery
  - Heritage chief mocks lottery 'mess' (London)
  - Painter tells of role in modern art conspiracy
  - Stolen Sickert Painting (Richard J. Viola)
  - VHS Video Cassette Storage Cabinet / Library Storage Rack (J. Holley)
  
• October 5, 1998
  - Mondrian painting stolen from Dutch museum (Ton Cremers)
  - research paper on museum security and art theft (Jack Clark)
  - [Fire Safe Heritage]: fire loss data on historic buildings
  - Missing Books (Naomi M. Steinberger)
  - Utah art museum receives high honors: accreditation
  - French Police Recover Stolen Monet, Sisley Works (Reuter)
  - FBI seizes gold artifacts from New Mexico museum
  - French police recover thousands of stolen antiques
  - Brazilian commission hunts for artworks looted by Nazis
  - Museum considers security upgrade after gun theft
  - [Fire Safe Heritage]: Halon Accident
  - Police investigate UKPounds 100,000 'fraud' at national museum
  
• September 28, 1998
  - Stately home owners are forced to sell 600 years of history (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Corporate cutback shuts Mexico City art museum (Reuters)
  - Thieves pillage French chateaux of art heritage (Times of London)
  - Thieves Loot Art From Peru Churches (The Associated Press; Appraiserl@aol.com)
  - Re: Monet & Sisely theft (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - Training of Student Guards (Dan Smith)
  
• September 27, 1998
  - Christie's 'should stop Scott sale' (BY STEPHEN FARRELL )
  - Author creates a storm over auction of polar artefacts ( BY STEPHEN FARRELL)
  - UKPounds1m Picasso painting lost in Swissair crash (Daily Telegraph)
  - Captain Scott's belongings may go back to his Antarctic hut (Times of London)
  - Sri Lanka acts to protect ancient sites
  - High court case on Dutch art stolen from Germany
  - STOLEN PAINTINGS FROM WWII
  - Flight 111
  - Photius
  - Boston museum battles town over Monet, other paintings
  - Rembrandt's nude attacker is sent to jail (London, 09.19.1998)
  - Teacher's gamble on lost Renoir may net UKPounds:50,000 (Times of London)
  - Monet, Sisley Paintings Stolen In Nice Museum (Masked robbers take paintings from museum)
  - [Fire Safe Heritage]: Fire Damages Arkansas State House
  - Conman 'altered Tate archives in complex fraud' (Times of London)
  - Dealing with legacy of Nazi art thefts (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
  
• September 12, 1998
  - Golden mosaic crumbles in winds (Times of London)
  - All's quiet on Gardner works (Boston Globe; the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist)
  - Re: SEPTEMBER 6, 1998/Chicago Tribune artcl on book mold
  - September Antiquities Sale at Sloan's Results from Fatal Robbery (Maine Antique Digest)
  - Sioux seek return of 'ghost' relic (BBC News)
  - $40 million for artwork stirs audit; Dutch public questions tab for Mondrian abstract left unfinished by artist (AP)
  - The Man Whole Stole the Mona Lisa (Thomas Dixon)
  - Inquiry about security laws (ZEESHAN HAIDER)
  - Ethic's, Law, and Stolen Art (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - High Court sends looted Old Master back to Germany (Daily Telegraph London)
  - 300,000 pictures 'are still missing' (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Austria vows to restitute Nazi art loot (Reuters)
  - Germany wins court battle for looted painting (Times of London) (same subject as first article above)
  - conference "Art, Antiquity, and the Law: Preserving Our Global Cultural Heritage"
  - Brazil to get art stolen by Nazis
  - upcoming conference on stolen art (Jennifer Howard)
  - Books stolen from the British Institute of Florence
  - Shattergard
  - MOMA asks appeals court to release disputed Schiele paintings
  - Austrians move on plundered art (Walter V. Robinson)
  
• September 7, 1998
  - The 'Theft' of a Marquis de Sade manuscript and legal complications
  - Theft report (Susan M. Allen)
  - Mona Lisa (info about 1911 theft)
  - Re: Fire Recovery-Heavy water Damage to Vital Statistic
  - Re: Fire Recovery-Heavy water Damage to Vital Statistic Documents (Guenter Kroll)
  - Stolen Art Databases (David Liston)
  - [Fire Safe Heritage]: Ukrainian Synagogue Damaged by Fire
  - Security Tight as Van Gogh Prepares to Kick Off U.S. Tour By Carl Hartman
  - NEW UN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT CAN PROSECUTE "CULTURAL" WAR CRIMES IN BOTH INTERNATIONAL WARS AND NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICTS (Patrick Boylan)
  - Fire detector (optical flame detectors)
  - Getting Stoned From Old Books? (Chicago Tribune)
  - Recovery of wet documents (David_Tremain@pch.gc.ca)
  - Mona Lisa Theft 1911(Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - Art Theft, Stolen Art update (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  
• September 1, 1998
  - Museums fight to keep Hitler art treasures
  - Brazilian stolen art database
  - Tribal Art Dealers Association listing of stolen objects
  - fire ravages historic synagogue
  - Re: Fwd: Halon Alternatives? (grace.crane@gsa.gov)
  - Re: Fwd: Halon Alternatives-reply (Mikerzez@aol.com)
  - Fire Recovery-Heavy water Damage to Vital Statistic Documents
  - re: Fire Recovery-Heavy water Damage to Vital Statistic Documents (johnos@servtech.com)
  - Re: Fire Recovery-Heavy water Damage to Vital Statistic Documents (Roger Wulff)
  - re: Fire Recovery-Heavy water Damage to Vital Statistics (Mary_Nell Kindred)
  - Re: Fire Recovery-Heavy water Damage to Vital Statistic Documents (Betty Storz)
  - Re: (Fwd) Fire Recovery-Heavy water Damage to Vital Statistic Documents (Southwest Museum)
  
• August 25, 1998
  - US import laws / Lost Van Goghs (websites) (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - Fire safety, halon gass and measures to meet new demands (Jan Henriksen)
  - re: Fire safety, halon gass and measures to meet new demands (Ton Cremers)
  - ALTERNATIVES TO HALON FOR SPECIAL FIRE HAZARD FIRE PROTECTION
  - list of HALON ALTERNATIVE MANUFACTURERS
  
• August 21, 1998
  - Re: Practices of security in museums
  - Re: (Fwd) CCTV surveillance via Internet (Bob Cole)
  - Re: Re: (Fwd) CCTV surveillance via Internet (Steve Keller)
  - Cultural Property Publications (Roger Wulff)
  - ??damages by museum patrons/copyists??? (Holly Chase)
  - Re: ??damages by museum patrons/copyists??? (Anne Douglas)
  - collections: electronic access policies (Sally Shelton)
  - Trust seeks sex ban on chalk giant (Daily Telegraph London)
  
• August 20, 1998
  - Spanish police recover Hitler's ``Woman in Blue'' (Reuters Limited)
  - Practices of security in museums (alistair.mcgill@arup.com)
  - Re: Practices of security in museums (Steve Keller)
  - Need list of stolen art (mn@primenet.com Nancy Robey)
  - Art with a dubious past (Irish Times)
  - Motorist Held After Crashing Through Security Barricade at Getty Museum (Los Angeles Times)
  
• August 18, 1998
  - Copernicus sun-theory book stolen (Daily Telegraph)
  - Re: Copernicus sun-theory book stolen
  - Re: Copernicus sun-theory book stolen
  - Auction Law and Practice - Seminar in London Sept 10 1998
  - Museum damaged Parthenon sculptures (Miami Herald)
  - NZ police recover stolen Tissot painting
  - U.S. will try to catalog art treasures stolen by the Nazis
  - Degas settlement lands in uncharted territory
  - Library Flooding damages more than 50,000 library documents
  - [Fire Safe Heritage]: Star Spangled Banner
  
• August 14, 1998
  - Art with a dubious past (The Irish Times)
  - 'Secret deal' to export works of art (D.T.London)
  - Art Theft Goes Digital
  - Native American Artifacts (thefts)
  - CCTV surveillance via Internet
  - Re: Volunteers and Security Responsibilities
  - Holocaust victims' heirs given share of a Degas
  
• August 11, 1998
  - Dealers jailed for stealing Lowrys from doctor's home (Daily Telergraph)
  - Plea to halt export of antiquities
  - see this URL (http://www.swanet.org/vandalism.html)
  - Gunman Steals Prominent French Painting From New Zealand Gallery
  - $2m art theft may be for deal overseas
  - HELP! Museum and Lands Threatened
  - Blaze destroys former tavern
  
• August 9, 1998
  - Heirs sue museum for painting (Universal Time)
  - Hospital's sculpture is a cone of contention (Daily Telegraph)
  - request for information about training for student guards
  - Time for the Parthenon Marbles to be sent home (The Irish Times)
  - Art attack by man in dress (Times of London)
  - Cook's 'fake' Lowry is real thing (Times of London)
  - Gallery is sued over 'looted' art (Times of London)
  - Volunteers and Security Responsibilities
  
• August 3, 1998
  - 490 Metal detectors unused at Library of Congress
  - Art Theft /Stolen Art update
  - The fine art of security (The Irish Times)
  
• July 29, 1998
  - Paintings Stolen in 1993 Are Found
  - Removal van fire destroys Freud letters (Daily Telegraph)
  - Wolfe Fire Update (Martha Jackson mjackson@NCSL.DCR.STATE.NC.US)
  - Re: IFAR (website at http://www.ifar.org)
  
• July 28, 1998
  - A Few Book Selections (Museum Services International)
  - Fire at Thomas Wolfe Memorial
  - SECURITY Loop
  
• July 26, 1998
  - Public check 'Bumblebee' antique haul (Daily Telegraph)
  - Summary about the re-opening of the 'Alte Pinakothek' in Munich (antonia.kriks@munich.netsurf.de)
  - Archaeologist at Last Wins Battle With France (The Washington Post)
  - Australia art market hit by serial faker (Sunday Times London)
  - Bubis urges Russia, US help to find gold files (Reuters)
  - Introduction, sub contract installation company (MKIVCOMM@aol.com)
  - Free entry to [UK] major museums and galleries is NOT yet "guaranteed" (Patrick Boylan)
  
• July 24, 1998
  - Watchdog to stop arts wasting cash (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Man held in B-52 arson (United Press International)
  
• July 23, 1998
  - Engineer discovers a rich vein in security (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Vandals attack Italian works of art (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Crime wave threatens Russian art heritage (Times of London)
  - looking for IFAR (web)address
  - Mag Locks on gallery doors
  
• July 20, 1998
  - Nazi-Plundered Art Hard to Trace (Universal Time)
  - You're history,' sentence tells antique thieves (Philadelphia Newspapers Inc.)
  - 2 get jail in theft at historical society
  - Cultural 'Robin Hoods' in book raid (Times of London)
  
• July 18, 1998
  - Art theft pays, but it's his job to prevent it
  - Lost fresco revealed by quake damage
  - Police discover paintings worth $30,000-plus (Toronto Star)
  - Beam painted distorted picture of NEA (Barbara W. Grossman)
  
• July 17, 1998
  - Chinese Snuff Bottles Alert
  - U.S. museum curators frustrated in hunt for looted Nazi artwork
  - Moves for guidelines on Holocaust art
  - Cemetery items hot property
  - Stolen marbles found on wreck go back to Turkey
  - Art theft
  - Christie's sues collector over 'fake' painting (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Schiele - and no end? (Die Presse, Wien. translation: Antonia Kriks: antonia.kriks@munich.netsurf.de)
  
• July 10, 1998
  - MFA won't relinquish Guatemalan artifacts (Walter V. Robinson, Globe Staff, 07/09/98)
  - Mexico-Church Fire
  - Steve Keller: "survival" of the fires of 1998
  - Safety for Visitors (plus reply...)
  - Art works recovered 30 years after disappearing from Romanian castle
  - Arizona State U. Audit Finds Conflicts of Interest and Mishandled Funds
  - Re: Options for protection
  - McCain Measure Would Protect Park Quiet (of National Park interest)
  
• July 7, 1998
  - Gang held as Italians recover art treasures (London Times)
  - Information on fires sought for documentary
  - http://www.inst-of-art-and-law.co.uk (Institute of Art and Law)
  - Oops, restorers smash Pavilion minaret (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Treasure kept from Soviets is revealed (Daily Telegraph London)
  
• July 3, 1998
  - Effort is set to find art Nazis stole
  - interested in a position as security officer/ advisor
  - Searching for Art Stolen During WWII by Nazi War Criminals
  - organize an international meeting to compare experiences and methodologies. Please suggest names of distinguished speakers and subjects of lectures
  - Barriers for Historic Houses
  - Art Theft Inquiry
  - Surviving a Disaster
  - ARREST - Theft of Antique Snuff Bottles
  - fireproof paint
  - Bronze, 6-Foot-Tall 'Hey Girl' Stolen From Sculpture Garden
  - Vigilance pays as Tenafly treasure turns up
  - Man accused of illegally profiting by sale of Cincinnati school art
  - California fires (Steve Keller)
  
• June 11, 1998
  - Re: moderators message and some news
  - Art Loss Register Announces Initiative to Set Up Holocaust Art Database
  - Re: moderators message and some news
  - 170 museums to review collections for stolen art
  - The Big 50
  - Rabbi linked to disappearance of rare books (Times of London)
  - concealed weapons: law enforcement
  - Auctions boom in Poland as new rich swoop on art (while thieves are getting slicker and greedier)
  - Cleaning 'scarred' Elgin Marbles (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Court: Smithsonian is not federal agency
  - Restoring art can be a touchy job for this conservator (The Kansas City Star)
  - Experts asked to examine Elgin Marbles (San Jose Mercury News)
  - Germany goes to court for looted Old Master (Times of London)
  - Staid Swiss reject ``The Kiss'' (Reuters)
  - Property removal policy (Bill Parker)
  - stolen art in last 30 years (findtec)
  - CUADERNOS DE SEGURIDAD, the leading security magazine in Spain is preparing for its number of June an article devoted to the Museums Security
  - Greece has intensified its demands for the return of the Elgin Marbles from Britain
  - Art theft websites
  - top 10 midwest graduate riskmanagement/insurance universities
  
• June 5, 1998
  - How did all that art end up in museums?
  - Stolen rare book by Ptolemy recovered in London
  - RBMS Security Guidelines Revision
  - Villagers take on art world to reclaim 'stolen' treasure (Times of London)
  - Mercouri exhibit focuses on getting Elgin marbles back
  - Moderators message
  - Police recover stolen antiques (Columbus Dispatch)
  - Closures at the Louvre due to theft
  - Historic sites are being destroyed at the rate of one every day
  
• May 31, 1998
  - Re:Three priceless paintings stolen in Rome (Clifford Scheiner)
  - Re: Radio Frequency Identification (blchan@gis.net)
  - Re: Fire suppression - to sprinkle or not to sprinkle? (4 messages)
  - BEYOND REPATRIATION: AN ANALYSIS OF ISSUES RELATED TO EQUITABLE RESTITUTION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY (abstract of doctorate thesis by Boa Rhee Seo, Doctor of Philosophy,with extensive CV)
  - Stolen art works force museums to probe deeper
  - Re: Fire suppression - to sprinkle or not to sprinkle? (P.Boylan@CITY.AC.UK)
  - Re: Fire suppression (tcl@TELEPORT.COM)
  - HB2182 killed for year: The Whistle-Blower legislation (this may be somewhat enigmatic for new Museum Security Mailinglist subscribers. If you want to read more about this matter do go to the March 5 reports about the ASU Art Museum at http://www.museum-security.org/02098.html )
  - ShatterGard Security & Safety Window Films
  - return of the looted treasures
  
• May 21, 1998
  - Stolberg Library (ExLibris)
  - Fire extinguishers (ConsDisList)
  - The current situation of the UNIDROIT Art Protection Convention
  - Family Reif still is searching for heirs
  - Bust of Christ stolen from diocese (The Columbus Dispatch)
  - Britain's heritage 'left to rot' (Sunday Times)
  - Worker admits theft of Baalbek artifacts (The Daily Star)
  - re: concealed handguns
  - Worries about potential donation (jstrayer@semovm.semo.edu)
  - Position Available Oklahoma Museum of Natural History: Administrator, Security & Facilities Operations
  - History in danger of crumbling to dust, says English Heritage (Daily Telegraph London)
  - 3 messages about fire extinguishers (ConsDisList)
  - re: concealed handguns
  - re: Worries about potential donation
  - Three priceless paintings stolen in Rome
  - Nigeria loses $200 mln of antiquities in five years
  - Conference - Radio Frequency Identification (Museum Documentation Association)
  - Theft at maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Wa (maryhill@gorge.net)
  - The Bureau of Cultural Protection (museplan@erols.com)
  - Dutch Probe Into Nazi-Plundered Art (Appraiserl@aol.com)
  - Fire suppression - to sprinkle or not to sprinkle?
  - Cezanne, Two Van Goghs Stolen From Rome Museum ( thieves removed the tape from the museum's closed-circuit surveillance system)
  - Art thieves return painting to pensioner (Daily Telegraph London)
  
• May 15, 1998
  - Louvre examines security following theft
  - Louvre security comes under focus
  - Antique watch collection missing from Kent store (The Beacon Journal)
  - Antique decorations vanishing overnight (Philadelphia)
  - Recovery of Brazilian stolen artifacts (rbruno@internetcom.com.br)
  - Appeal (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
  - 'Armed robber ripped Picasso from gallery'
  - Defendant claims he knows real art thief (Times of London, May 9, 1998)
  - 28 of 32 missing watches found hidden in Kent store (beacon Journal)
  - NPCA News Release: NPCA Says $150 Million Needed for Park Science Advocacy Group
  - Jewels, fine art the latest victims of Asia crisis
  - 'The Simpsons' museum spoof
  - 2 dealers accused of handling stolen collectibles (Philadelphia Newspapers Inc.)
  - Bat swarms threatening artworks (Ker Munthit, ASSOCIATED PRESS)
  - New theft from French museum
  - Cat burglar admits role in plot to sell stolen Picasso
  - Millions needed to save Gothic treasure for nation
  - 'Gentleman' thief admits he was in picture on Picasso
  - Theft admission ends tug-of-war over artwork (looted art and antiquities)
  - Concealed Handguns
  - RE: Concealed Handguns
  - Diebstahl in der Nationalbibliothek
  - NY judge orders Schiele paintings back to Austria
  - Search For People Counter and Control
  - Judge rejects seizure of disputed paintings from a N.Y. museum
  - Judge blocks attempt to seize art allegedly stolen by Nazis
  - Resolving a case that had alarmed the international art world
  - Judge says disputed paintings can return to Austria
  - International paintings can't be seized
  - US court releases disputed works of art
  - 16th century paintings stolen from Germany to be returned
  - Monet's Le Grand Canal sells for over $12 million
  - NPCA CALLS FOR PHASEOUT OF COMMERCIAL FISHING IN GLACIER BAY
  - Looted war art heads back to German university
  - Park Advocates Outline Reforms to Stop Hollywood's Explotation of National Parks
  - Chorus of experts say Van Gogh ``Sunflowers'' a fake
  
• May 5, 1998
  - Elton John among victims of Man Ray photographs fraud
  - Treasure hunter closes on legendary Nazi loot; Mystery of the lost amber (Sunday Times)
  - Can you help?
  - Alisha Alderson's request
  - Thieves plundering cradle of civilization (The Miami Herald)
  - German quarry scoured for lost Tsarist treasure (Reuters Limited)
  - stolen artwork story (Moespurr@aol.com)
  - Robbing the Cradle or Saving Artifacts? (dshinn@neo.lrun.com)
  - call for papers, "Deceit, Deception & Discovery: Fakes in the Museum and the Marketplace", LYNN PRODEN 15603@UDel.Edu
  - PARK ADVOCATES URGE CLINTON TO VETO ANOTHER "PAVE THE PARKS" RIDER
  - THE LOOTING OF ITALY; THE CASE OF THE GOLDEN PHIALE
  - Looting Dispute Artfully Resolved; Museum benefits from deal allowing exquisite works by Italian masters to be shown in America.
  - The Fake van Gogh (js0066@snyflcaa.fingerlakes.edu)
  - United States v. Spiegelman (fwd), Claudia Funke ccf6@columbia.edu
  - 4,000 library books stolen from garage (By Ann Belser, Post-Gazette Staff Writer)
  - TRIBUTES IN DISTRESS; S.F.'s venerable works of art are in serious need of repair
  - Famed Florida treasure hunter's coins called fakes (By Ben Iannotta)
  - The Denney Paper has been updated and is available at: http://www.museum-security.org/denney.html
  - New Art and Law Web Site of interest to Museum staff (antonya@antonya.ace.co.uk)
  - Painting stolen from Louvre; The painting was cut from its frame
  - Theft of statue of Helen Keller stumps police (Cleveland)
  - illicit art trade
  - Electrical Fires (firesafe@middlebury.net)
  - Re: -stolen artwork story (wsisson@worldnet.att.net)
  - The Louvre robbed again; this time of an Impressionist (do not get scared: this report is additional to the one we sent to the MSN list yesterday)
  - Gates buys Homer painting for $30 million (San Jose Mercury News)
  - Armenia hands back Soviet army war booty to Germany
  
• April 23, 1998
  - Police return UKPounds:30,000 haul of antiques to burglar; detectives have been unable to trace the original owners.(It is estimated that the criminal trade in antiques in Britain nets UKPounds:500 million annually) (Daily Telegraph)
  - Italy Wants Greek Antiquities Back (The Associated Press)
  - Egyptian museum gets new security system (Reuters)
  - Re: student guards (Steve Keller IntlArtCop@aol.com)
  - Police appeal on items taken from suspect (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Russian attacks over-restoration of Old Masters (Times of London)
  - Fake Mayan carvings aim to foil thieves (Reuters)
  - Job Opening (SECURITY GUARD)
  - whistle blower legislation and the ASU Art Museum
  - Schiele Case: Heirs of Fritz Gruenbaum discovered (Die Presse, Wien)
  - Move to stop aboriginal art fraudsters (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Yeltsin reluctantly signs trophy art law - (Reuters)
  - New York: Heirs to stolen treasures saved by prosecutors who forgot the law (Times of London)
  - Sources for cabinets and fire suppression systems (ConsDisList)
  - Stolen paintings just turn up: The Grandma Moses works had been taken from a Phila.-area home. (Philadelphia Newspapers Inc.)
  - Schiele-paintings: Investigastion will take "noch another few months" (Der Standard; Antonia Kriks antonia.kriks@munich.netsurf.de)
  - Whistleblower, ASU Art Museum, Tim Feavel's statement
  - Copyright laws and charges ( Rooksana Omar plhm@iafrica.com)
  - Italy calls N.Y. museum's prized collection stolen; Legal action is threatened to regain treasures (By Walter V. Robinson, Globe Staff, 04/17/98)
  - MMA Denies Buying Stolen Silver
  - Van Gogh painting mystery teases art experts
  - Federal judge denies injunction to street artists
  - Help for a story ( "pat lagacé" kick@cyberus.ca)
  - Missing Items; Daniel Spiegelman case. (Jane Rodgers Siegel jrs19@columbia.edu)
  - Stolen statue was buried deep in garden (Times of London)
  - £28m Sunflowers among 30 Van Gogh fakes, says expert (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Colosseum may be sold to reduce Italy's debt (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Italy outraged by proposal to sell Colosseum (Times of London)
  
• April 12, 1998
  - French joyful as stolen relics are found in US (Times of London)
  - Delco men plead guilty in theft of artifacts ( Philadelphia Newspapers Inc.)
  - Art looted by Nazis in Austrian museums - report
  - Swiss defer comment on looted art until report out
  - Hunt for conman who strips homes (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Poland: Germany Seeks Cultural Treasures (Radio Free Europe)
  - student guards - continued (Brent,Lori & Colin Snider lbcsnider@email.msn.com)
  - A `creative' biography didn't foresee plot of British giggles (WASHINGTON POST/1998 Philadelphia Newspapers Inc)
  
• April 8, 1998
  - G-Man's Raison d'Etre: Pilfered Art (Fox News Online)
  - U.S. looting (Anonymous)
  - The Performance of Temporary Protection Assistants as an Adjunct to The Guard Force (Roger Wulff)
  - Dispute about paintings (Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Samstag/Sonntag 28/29 Maerz 1998)
  - re: use of student officers (Indianapolis Museum of Art)
  - Information of Jewel Theft (rfdavis@friend.ly.net)
  - Exhibition Loans (Rosemary Haddad)
  - Schiele-paintings: Hearing again delayed ("Die Presse", Wien)
  - Earthquake reveals new fresco from 15th century (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Re: student guards (Steve Keller: IntlArtCop@aol.com)
  - Nazi loot (Victoria Cranner: ics@SHORE.NET)
  - Volunteers and Security ("Robert T. Handy" handy@BCHM.ORG)
  - Sculptor defends taking body parts (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Artist defends use of human body parts (Times of London)
  - Heritage Lottery Fund chief in UKPounds:30m farewell (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Arts centre wins UKPounds:7.5m lottery cash (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Re: Lakota study ("The Performance of Temporary Protection Assistants as an Adjunct to the Guard Force at the Hirshhorn Museum "): Steve Keller IntlArtCop@aol.com
  - missing Italian art (Teresa Prestwood writer5@hotmail.com)
  - Beijing's oldest stone statue of Buddha has been stolen from its home in a suburban village (BBC UK News)
  - Partnership opportunities for Federally-associated collections (Sally Shelton sshelton@sdnhm.org )
  - Volunteers and Security (Thread of six messages forwarded from Museum-L)
  - U.S. to Host Second Meeting on Nazi Looting (WASHINGTON, Reuters)
  - Tenant stole UKPounds: 1/2 m art from his flat (Times of London)
  - Master of all forgers (Tages Anzeiger, Zuerich, 02.04.98)
  - Deceased Collector Bestows Art Riches Upon National Gallery (Washington Post) THE NETHERLANDS MY HAVE CLAIM ON VAN GOGH PAINTING.
  - Murder of art restorer is linked to serial killer (Daily Telegraph London April 3, 1998)
  with background articles:
  - Who murdered the count with a candelabra as he played Bach fugues? (Jan. 18, 1997)
  - Murder linked to art scandal (February 9, 1997)
  - Painting at the centre of smuggling claim returned (February 8, 1997) More at: http://www.museum-security.org/ follow the link to 1997 reports.
  - security devices opinions requested (Michael P Crimmins mpc584@world.std.com)
  - Renumeration of Security/Front of House Staff (Trevor Reynolds trevor@CAERLAS.DEMON.CO.UK)
  - a painful matter
  - Smart System (IntlArtCop )
  - Artist is jailed over theft of body parts (Daily Telegraph, Sue Clough, Courts Correspondent)
  - Customs officials pluck art at border (By Diane R. Stepp, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  - Claims to Greek goddesses; Italy suspects smugglers got artifacts to US collector (Walter V. Robinson, Globe Staff, 04/04/98)
  - Austria Confronts Its Shameful Past; Reality of Collaboration With Nazis Replaces Myth of Victimization (By William Drozdiak Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, April 4, 1998)
  - Re: a painful matter, ICOM/ICMS (antonia.kriks@munich.netsurf.de)
  - 1998 NM Heritage Preservation Week Calendar of events
  - Disaster recovery and natural history collections (ConsDisList: sshelton@sdnhm.org)
  - Treasures of Assisi further damaged by new wave of quake (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Confidentiality policy (Bill Parker parker.166@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu)
  - Russia: Germans Expect To Challenge Art Ruling (Radio Free Europe)
  - Yeltsin plan to return looted art thwarted (BBC News)
  - Russian war booty: the judges rule (BBC News)
  - Court Tells Yeltsin to Sign Booty Art Law (Russia Today)
  - Swiss defer comment on looted art until report out (Reuters )
  - Yeltsin calls trophy art ruling a ``slap in face'' (Reuters)
  - SUPREME COURT HEARS NEA DECENCY CASE
  - Russians urged to return art (The Age Australia)
  - Finally, a verdict in the case that has shocked the art world (The Age Australia)
  - Bowie and Boyd "hoax" art world (BBC News)
  - British joke falls flat in New York (Times of London)
  
• March 27, 1998
  - Hopi-Masks Dealer Draws 33 Month Prison Term
  - Art Loan Agreements
  - Art loan agreements ( Mary Ross)
  - Re: Dallas vandalism
  - Re: Fire Suppression Systems/LowBidders
  - Re: student guards
  - 24-hour surveillance
  - Macabre artist denies stealing human remains
  - Court Struggles With Value of Manuscripts
  - Dispute about looted art in France's museums
  - Re- Student Guards (Margaret Schroeder)
  - re: 24-hour surveillance
  - museum-student guards
  - Matthieu Pouly, a young French cyclist on his second world cycling tour of World Heritage sites and Biosphere Reserves on different continents of the globe, killed in a tragic accident outside Rio-de-Janiero, Brazil.
  - re: 24-hour surveillance
  - ACLU Sues City Over Covered-Up Mural
  - Body parts artist 'copied da Vinci'
  - Aborigine artist 'from Calcutta' (aboriginal art industry, already reeling from two major scandals, has been further shaken)
  - Local Man Charged With Theft and Concealment of Four Valuable Books
  - Our whistle-blower bill
  - Museum Guards
  - Item Security
  - Is the "GIRL" allowed to travel? (Schiele)
  - Grave robbers find treasure in cemeteries (The Detroit News)
  - 5 indicted in thefts involving antiques (Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. )
  - Dutch state may be sued over wartime Jewish art (Reuters Limited.)
  - MSN suggestion (Elizabeth E. Fuller)
  - International Fine Arts Organization Founded & First Show Announced (World Arts Association )
  - Mystery of stolen picture of Christ is solved (Daily Telegraph London)
  - Re: student guards (Steve Keller)
  
• March 21, 1998
  - professional vs. support
  - Re: professional vs. support
  - Fire Suppression Systems/LowBidders
  - Palace sculpture is stolen
  - Oil paintings damaged in shipment
  - 'Looted art' : Tug of war is going on
  - Re: Fire Suppression Systems/LowBidders
  - University Museums-Student Guards
  - Re: coll. storage visits
  - Switzerland and the Looted Art Trade Linked to World War II
  - Oil paintings damaged in shipment
  - Re: coll. storage visits
  - [Fwd: Re: University Museums-Student Guards]
  - The Netherlands: Museums are searching for looted art
  - Confront the Past, Search for Provenance, By HECTOR FELICIANO
  - Battle to beat Russian art thieves
  - Paintings Worth $20 Million Damaged In Dallas
  - re: re: Paintings Worth $20 Million Damaged In Dallas (an interesting question. TC). Bert R. Saper
  - Loaned art in best place, says Irvine
  - Hermitage's Injured Art Gets Delicate Surgery (restoration of damaged art works)
  - Re: University Museums-Student Guards (Ryan Judd)
  - Authentication Systems for Museums, Galleries and Collectors
  - CBS (Dan Rather) re: ASU whistle-blower
  - Stolen Manuscripts Recovered (the WWW works!)
  - Art loan agreements ( Mary Ross)
  
• March 16, 1998
  - access behind public galleries
  - Fright n` flight and safety
  - US Arizona State Museum Brouhaha, David Liston
  - US Arizona State Museum Brouhaha, reply Ton Cremers
  - Re: US Arizona State Museum (sic) Brouhaha
  - Stolen Music Manuscripts in the Canary Islands
  - FIRE PROTECTION ALERT
  - 'Forgetful' baronet ruins Roman site
  - Researching history of a statue
  - Austria may favor returning artwork plundered by Nazis
  - Mapplethorpe book stays
  - ASU Art Museum (public employees; whistleblower changes)
  - Museums and the 21st Century
  - 'Looted art' in German Museums
  - Deaccessioning missing objects
  - Art Chancellor Klima pleads for looted art committee
  
• March 10, 1998
  - Moderator's request to support a fellow security professional
  - RE: Audit ASU art museum (complete report)
  - Re: Audit ASU art museum (complete report)
  - Art swindler sentenced to 28 months by New York judge
  - ASU museum director on leave; Funds inquiry at ASU museum prompts move
  - Audit at ASU Art Museum
  - Re: BRITISH POLICE DEMAND MAPPLETHORPE BOOK-BURNING
  - art museum at Arizona State University
  - Re: art museum at Arizona State University
  - Austria confronts dark past by combing art for Nazi links
  - Re: Audit ASU art museum
  - British Museum acts to return stolen objects
  March 10, 1998, continued
  - Listen folks: don't fight, but unite! (ASU Art Museum Affair)
  - Re: Listen folks: don't fight, but unite! (ASU Art Museum Affair)
  - Mayan grave robbers strike in Honduras
  - St. Peter's Gates Found!
  - FIRE PROTECTION PRODUCT ALERT
  - FIRE PROTECTION ALERT-Reply
  - Re: Listen folks: don't fight, but unite! (ASU Art Museum Affair)
  - MAPPLETHORPE CENSORSHIP - UPDATE
  
• March 5, 1998
  - Ownership/recovery of Works of Art/Art Loans - Art Newspaper March 1998
  - Chorus of unanimous opinion; Looted art: Peter Wittmann und Heide Schmidt agree with Elisabeth Gehrer
  - Inmate Connor briefly conscious (Isabella Stewart Gardner heist)
  - Artist's family wins £2.5m fight with gallery (Kurt Schwitters)
  - Frescoes reduced to rubble are now beyond salvation (Umbria)
  - Art Investor Magazine - new link to "Lessons from the Denney Collection"
  - Announcing: New chat and bulletin board service for art curators and patrons.
  - conference on smuggle of looted art in Hungary
  - Sight for work sore eyes (new 'hire-out' scheme for major art works)
  - Police Locate Rare Audubon Antiquities
  - About art, morals - and the Austrian State, by Antonia Kriks
  - Chief of museums in Austria presses probe of Nazi art
  - Ownership of Durer drawings looted in war still debated
  - Putting teeth in looting laws (of National Park interest)
  - CYPRIOT CHURCH ART FOUND
  - SAGA OF THE NINEVEH MARBLES
  - ANTIQUITIES SCANDAL (Maya antiquities)
  - Atlantic Forests, Brasil
  - Iraq's artefacts under threat
  - Police confiscate Mapplethorpe book
  - Mystery of missing antiquities sold by Sotheby's
  - #2 Fuel Oil Fumes
  - Audit ASU art museum (complete report)
  - State audits ASU art museum; Finds more than $275,00 in funds 'misused'
  - Man held in theft of Lincoln papers
  - Maximum term urged for relic thief; Tribe describes spiritual damage he has caused
  - Expert fuels row over Van Gogh's Sunflowers
  - 18th CENTURY WROUGHT IRON GATES STOLEN FROM HISTORIC ST. PETER'S CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA
  - RE: Audit ASU art museum (complete report)
  - Re: Audit ASU art museum (complete report)
  - Art swindler sentenced to 28 months by New York judge
  - ASU museum director on leave; Funds inquiry at ASU museum prompts move
  - Audit at ASU Art Museum
  - Re: BRITISH POLICE DEMAND MAPPLETHORPE BOOK-BURNING
  
• February 27, 1998
  - Anger at art 'looting' by Lord Irvine
  - Rauschenberg art returned
  - Re: art loans to politicians (Steve Keller)
  - art loan to politicians has tradition (Antonia Kriks)
  - Re: Return of Rauschenberg Art Loan to Menil
  - Re: Re: Return of Rauschenberg Art Loan to Menil
  - Stakes high, penalties harsh in artifacts fight; One collector fears extradition to Bolivia
  - Lord Irvine hits back at critics
  - Inmate tied to art theft hospitalized
  - Obelisk to be given back to Ethiopian holy city
  - Re: (Fwd) art loan by politicians
  - Standard series on looted art (part 3)
  - Series: Looted art - The misappropriated inheritance
  - sotheby's: T_H_E__I_N_S_I_D_E__S_T_O_R_Y
  - Flood dents armor in Mass. museum
  - Re: Nazis-WWII stolen art from the Louvre
  
• February 21, 1998
  - Steve Keller's Speech
  - query: Information pertaining to cost-effective ways of securing paintings and decorative arts.
  - MAP THEFT INFO
  - Objection rejected: Schiele paintings remain confiscated
  - re: query: Information pertaining to cost-effective ways of securing paintings and decorative arts
  - Finding the Lost Art
  - Rauschenberg art to be sold; Creditors set auction date; museums plan to go to court to get works back.
  - Art talks on again, Youngworth claims (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)
  - Irvine accused of looting Scottish art
  - RBMS Security Committee Intern
  - Query re: Museum Security Certification in U.S.
  - Russia-Museum Fire (Historical Museum on Red Square)
  - Mutilated Library Books
  - Hang him higher (Rauschenberg)
  - Survey (system specifically designed for cultural protection applications)
  - art theft alert
  - re: Survey (system specifically designed for cultural protection applications)
  - N.Y.C. Parks Depart. threatens arrests at 2/24 demo
  
• February 17, 1998
  - Clinton inks bill to aid Holocaust relief bodies
  - Nazi Loot and relevant websites
  - Central Park Administration attacks artists' rights
  - help wanted: security design for a new museum
  - Re: COPYRIGHT:Request for pointers for an interested amateur
  - Re: CONFERENCE ON NAZI GOLD AND TREATMENT OF HOLOCAUST
  - How the Republic of Austria forced the Rothschilds to donate art.
  - How much confiscated NAZI art is in Austrian Museums?
  - Will there be a new US art acquisition law after the Schiele case?
  - Re:COPYRIGHT; Request for pointers for an interested amateur (Steve Keller)
  - Art, museums and the 'Third Reich' (Die Presse , Vienna)
  
• February 15, 1998
  - Nazi loot
  - Museums' stance on Nazi loot belies their role in a key case
  - Security & Fire Safety at Historic Sites
  - Re: Security & Fire Safety at Historic Sites
  - The Art Plunder Problem; Panel Told of Efforts to Deal With Nazi Loot
  - Restoration row as water defaces Giotto frescoes
  - Cultural Property Protection News
  - Art of the Feud; Painting provokes high-society inheritance fight
  
• February 14, 1998
  - Man Charged in Theft of Mozart, Wagner Papers
  - response to Antiquities Watchdog
  - RE: Sotheby's & Dr. Gachet
  - SIMON '98 is Online
  - Alert All offers all museums and institutions the opportunity, free of charge, to advertise for their stolen treasures through a database accessible via Internet.
  - FBI Appeal for Information to Antiquarian Book Dealers
  - RE: Looted Art and Congress
  - U.S. Museums To Check For Nazi-Looted Art
  - Re: Looted Art and Congress
  - Stolen Item (medallion)
  - Stolen materials (book)
  - CONFERENCE ON NAZI GOLD AND TREATMENT OF HOLOCAUST ASSETS
  - COPYRIGHT; Request for pointers for an interested amateur
  - RE: COPYRIGHT; Request for pointers for an interested amateur
  - RE: COPYRIGHT; Request for pointers for an interested amateur
  - PROVENANCE (the Wildenstein Gallery and the alleged allegations that Georges Wildenstein arranged for his collections be preserved and returned to him when confiscated by the German ERR and Goering in 1941).
  - Artist Wins Suit Over Mural; Fresno museum must pay $10,000 for obliterating her work
  - Ex-Japan MOF official took cut in art deals
  - Beutekunst (Die Presse, Vienna 13 February 1998, American Museums check stocks).
  - Museo de La Plata (request for help avoiding partial or total destruction and loss of important collections (in anthropology, botany, geology, paleontology and zoology)).
  - CCTV Products and EAS Tags (security product information)
  - PARK ADVOCACY GROUP OPPOSES ATTEMPTS TO WEAKEN ANTIQUITIES ACT OF 1906
  - 26TH AIC ANNUAL MEETING: "DISASTER PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE AND RECOVERY"
  - FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RISK ANALYSIS, VALENCIA, SPAIN, 6-8 OCTOBER 1998
  
• February 8, 1998
  - Police set up art network to fight UKPounds500m thefts
  (Crime wave has put Antiques Roadshow among most popular shows in jail, says Stewart Tendler)
  - Art worth UKPounds1bn listed as missing
  - Museums slammed over art stolen during World War II
  - Dutch Jewish art ``was plundered twice'
  - theft from Palenque museum
  
• February 5, 1998
  - Ancient jewelry sale cancelled!
  - Indictment of James Gilreath for rare book theft
  - 3 more messages about 'Looted Art and Congress' by: Debra Westerman, Margaret Hayon, and Antonia Kriks.
  
• February 4, 1998
  - Re: Looted Art and Congress
  - Museum hosts antiquities sale
  - Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) Re: Looted Art and Congress
  - Re: (Fwd) Re: Looted Art and Congress
  - NPCA Applauds FY 1999 Budget, Land Acquisition Requests
  
• February 3, 1998
  - AIC 26th Annual Meeting
  - Re: Looted Art and Congress
  - 1997 US Security Conference
  - Protection\Security Conferences
  
• January 31, 1998
  - US-customs investigates on Schiele; The verdict wether the confiscation was legal will be not until the beginning of March
  - Greek experts begin to restore Acropolis temple
  - " Beutekunst", Looted Art
  - The Art of The Steal (The Man Who Stole The Mona Lisa)
  - Drake Theft ("History of the Indian tribes of North America")
  Braque masterpiece, in the Pompidou Center, may have been stolen two articles about the same:
  • - Plunder in Vichy France reported
  • - Paris bought Braque looted by Nazis
  - Fire hits historic San Antonio mission
  - Vandals scar memorial to city's fallen heroes
  - UNESCO DIRECTOR-GENERAL FEDERICO MAYOR CONDEMNS THE BOMBING IN KANDY (SRI LANKA)
  - Former Israeli lawmaker in alleged art scam
  - German art deal smooths exiles' return
  - Famous Man Ray photographs forged.
  - Looted Art and Congress
  - Re: Looted Art and Congress
  - Man Ray forgeries and ISIS technology
  - Guatemala demands MFA return of artifacts
  - Documents talk of art trades between Swiss and Nazis
  - McAlpine turns down museum refund plea (artefacts McAlpine sold the museum some years before it emerged they had been stolen)
  - Masterpieces go at a loss in Japan slump
  
• January 23, 1998
  - Grave robbing video
  - New hope for Schiele (Die Presse Vienna)
  - Jury finds N.H. thief both sane and guilty
  - Did painting of nuns get on thief's goat?
  - Monks lift ban on women viewing Goya frescos
  - CUMBERLAND GAP SAVED FROM COAL MINE THREAT (of National Park interest)
  - NATIONAL PARKS BIG LOSERS AT THE BOX OFFICE
  - HH Sisson: risk management solutions for the entire art community
  - http://www.thecityreview.com carries full coverage of the Denny case, major controversies involving the attributions of early Chinese paintings and the provenance of Egon Schiele paintings
  - query; training videos for Security Officers
  - VANDALISING UNPOPULAR STATUES ETC.
  - Two Matisse paintings damaged in Rome exhibit
  - Schiele in New York - A further wait.
  - Re: query: Iraq's website displaying stolen items
  - Cont. ed. courses on security?
  - Artist arrested at NY City Hall
  - Museum Security Internships (and reply)
  
• January 18, 1998
  - Boston Globe "Lost Art series" online
  - confidential security information
  - re: card keys or code locks historic houses
  - Re: Two questions . . .answered
  
• January 17, 1998
  - Re: security matters openly discussed on an unsecure network
  - locking systems
  - updating safety procedures ( bomb threat, chemical or hazardous material spill, accidents, and various other situations)
  - 1998 DISASTER RECOVERY SOURCEBOOK NOW AVAILABLE
  - effects of Electronic Flash on paper, paintings, etc.
  - Rag-picker nabbed for stealing artefacts
  - Further developments in the Schiele Case -Die Presse Vienna 16th January 1997 edition
  - Schiele in New York: New delays - What does Prosecuting Attorney Morgenthau want?
  - Harvard museum acquisitions shock scholars
  - Sotheby's auctions off its honor (Book Review)
  
• January 15, 1998
  - Two questions . . . use of guard radios and/or earphone ( and replies by: David Liston, Robert Fawcett, Kevin Murszewsk, Margie Searl, James Holley)
  - Austrian seeks paintings held in U.S.: Curator says art impounded in N.Y. belong to Holocaust victim
  - N.H. man's thefts blamed on mental illness (accused of possessing 170 pieces of stolen art, furniture, and computers)
  - Man pleads guilty here to smuggling ancient armor
  - Panel Studying Nazi Wartime Loot; French Can't Estimate Booty
  - Museum moves old stone cross (accused of conducting an archaeological "smash and grab raid")
  - Turk Cypriot held in icon theft probe in Cyprus
  - Woman spray-paints priceless White House sculptures (follow up on yesterday's report)
  - Artist arrested at City Hall during Giuliani speech
  - Owner, Occupier - follow up to "Misdirected Fax (Do German Museums have claims on pictures in the Louvre?)
  
• January 14, 1998
  - Recovery of Items Stolen from the Historical Society of PA Organization: FBI PRESS RELEASE
  - White House Paining Vandal Caught
  - Questions: restitution of cultural property
  - Guidelines for sketching and copying in the museum
  - Official files on compulsory art traffic: Minister Gehrer is going to have the origins of paintings in Austrian Museums historically and scientifically investigated.
  GUATEMALANS DEMAND RETURN OF ARTIFACTS
  - Re: Looted Art from Vienna and Salzburg in the Louvre?
  
• January 13, 1998
  -Schiele (translations german articles and comments)
  -Hold Those Paintings! : The Manhattan D.A. seizes alleged Nazi loot
  - ILLICIT TRAFFIC OF KOGURYO DYNASTY TOMB MURAL PAINTINGS OUT OF NORTH KOREA INTO JAPAN
  - Display reflects anxiety about museum security; The FBI's recovery of stolen artifacts spotlights problem of insider theft.
  - Seeking Moral Justice by the Return of Looted Art
  - Information on theft of Mona Lisa in 1911
  - Copenhagen mermaid's head found
  - THE ART OF THE STEAL
  - Looted Art from Vienna and Salzburg in the Louvre?
  
• January 10, 1998
  - home of the legendary Minotaur in danger of collapsing.
  - Museum art seized in Nazi looting row
  - U.S. defends Austria art seizure, probe launched
  - Austria outraged as U.S. seizes Schiele pictures
  Re: Prison labor
  Austria-USA-MOMA-Schiele
  "The USA has forced the art world into a banana republic"
  
• January 8, 1998
  - Museum refuses request to retain paintings that were apparently stolen by Nazis.
  - MOMA stays out of dispute over ownership of paintings
  - Janitor charged in heist of U.S. historical relics
  - Little Mermaid loses her head to vandals for a second time
  - Flood at Higgins Armory Museum
  - Explosive Artifacts
  - Inmate's expected transfer chills Gardner case
  - Tourist complains that he was framed in the Louvre (security guards accused yesterday of breaking the nose of a Spanish tourist who refused to let them search his bag.)
  
  January 1 - 5, 1998
  - ANTIQUITIES WATCHDOG
  - Re: DECEMBER 31, 1997....final for this year
  - DECEMBER 31, 1997....final for this year -Reply
  - recent theft: http://www.kristalle.com to view photos of some of the pieces taken.
  - Re: loss of historic gold coins
  - Art museum sues couple over pledge
  - Crumbling Minoan palace gets urgent restoration