Michael Press @MichaelDPress A reminder to those studying unprovenanced antiquities:
You're (almost certainly) working on stolen property.
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A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.
About Me
- Paul Barford
- British archaeologist living and working in Warsaw, Poland. Since the early 1990s (or even longer) a primary interest has been research on artefact hunting and collecting and the market in portable antiquities in the international context and their effect on the archaeological record.
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- British Antiquities Seller Arrested in Spain
- Metal detectorists attempt to raid battlefield sit...
- Walsh on the Rhetoric of Antiquities Dealers Lobbies
- Partnership with Artefact Hunters: Looters of Anci...
- Is There a Cure for Impotence?
- Ancient coffin breaks as child put in it at Southe...
- Sussex man held in Turkey for smuggling ancient coins
- Dumbdown in extremis
- One Born Every Minute...
- The 'Jim Crow' Heritage of the Confederate South
- Doing the Right Thing: Presidenting is More Diffic...
- Hex of Exhibiting Collectors' Artefact Stashes for...
- Teotihuacan Trophies and Teddy Bears
- Situation in Syria August 2017
- Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiques Unit heading for ...
- High-value objects stolen from Norway museum [Upda...
- Bronze Age hoard near Lancaster NOT 'a Chance Disc...
- Stolen Gandharan Artefacts involved in Corruption ...
- British Antiquities Experts Call for International...
- Greece Shared Info, then Egypt was Able to Arrest ...
- Paintback Berlin Activists Turn Hate Symbols into Art
- Liberian Smuggler Captured in Libya with Coins for...
- Thought Provoking: Where Does This all Come From? ...
- ‘What is Grey about the “Grey Market” in Antiquiti...
- There is a very vocal crowd in the archeological c...
- Citizen Classicists Now
- Artefacts Looted in Middle East Conflicts Today 'M...
- What is Grey About the ‘Grey Market’ in Antiquities
- Patience Running out with Trite ISIL-Focussed US J...
- Getting America a bad Name: American Exceptionalis...
- US Coiney Brain Fluff
- Cheated: What you will get if you buy from the No-...
- The Racism Inherent in the International Trade Lobby
- US Congress Seeks to Punish Victims of Heritage C...
- Do-Righters Don't Collect Antiquities?
- US Collector Wants to hang on to Relic With Disput...
- The Art Market’s Informal Economy
- A reminder to those studying unprovenanced antiqui...
- How Dodgy are those Artefacts 'Legally Bought' fro...
- Collector's Sculpture Seized from New York's Museu...
- Saving the Heritage... without the Artefact Hunters
- Irresponsible Artefact Hunting, How to Deal with it?
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The popular You Tube personality "Miniminuteman" (Boston, Massachusetts-based Milo Rossi) came to my attention through the recent ... -
An arrest warrant has been issued by the Manhattan district attorney’s office for Edoardo Almagià, a high profile Princeton-educated antiqu...
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The guys claiming on social media that super-accurate measurements with extremely sophisticated machinery of 'ancient' stone vases... -
In an arrest warrant for Edoardo Almagià the Manhattan district attorney’s office detailed what it described as decades of illicit transact...
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Raphael Kutscher, ' Ur-Lisi and Other Officials on Three Umma Tablets from Tokyo Tel Aviv: Journal of the Institute of Archaeology ... -
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In a recent article about 69 objects apparently stolen from Iraqi museums are discussed ("Netherlands sends back Iraq artefacts", ...
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Bad taste (screenshot from 'LadBible) She's actually holding it upside down In the unthinking-clickbait pa... -
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. In an article published today in the online version of The National, a new English newspaper published by the Abu Dhabi Media Company, Lov...
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A Revised Artefact Erosion Counter for Artefact Hunting in England and Wales (2018)
I started this counter at midnight of 15th July 2018. Revised Artefact Erosion Counter for Artefact Hunting.
Related sites
- David Gill - Looting matters
- ECHO Egyptian Cultural Heritage Orgnization
- Elginism
- Erik Nemeth et al. Art World Intelligence
- Ethical Antiquities Collecting: Ancient Heritage
- Global Heritage Fund
- Halte au pillage du Patrimoine Archéologique et Historique
- Heritage Action
- Heritage Key
- Heritage Watch
- Illicit Cultural Property
- It Surfaced Down Under!
- Lawyers Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation
- Loot blog (Nora Mattern)
- Looting History
- Michael McCullough LLC Blog
- Museum Security Network (Google)
- Nathan Elkins - Numismatics and Archaeology
- Nord on Art
- Pieces of the Past: Ethical Antiquities Collecting
- Protecting China's Archaeological Heritage
- René Teijgeler - Culture in Development
- Research into Crimes against Art Association
- Ricardo A. St. Hilaire - Cultural Heritage Lawyer
- SAFE - Saving Antiquities For EVERYONE
- SAFECorner
- Sam Hardy 'Conflict Antiqiuties'
- Stanford Archaeology Center, Cultural Heritage Resource
- Stanford Cultural Heritage Resource - Chronicle
- The Chasing Aphrodite Blog
- The Cultural Property & Archaeology Law Blog
- The heritage Journal (Heritage Action's blog)
- The Punching Bag Larry Rothfield
- Things You Can't Take Back
- Trafficking Culture (Glasgow)
- Tumblr - Cultural Security
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Further Information
- AAMD (Association of Art Museum Directors)
- CBA (UK) - current issues: Portable Antiquities
- Code of Practice for "Responsible Metal Detecting" in England and Wales
- Cultural Heritage Lawyer - Ricardo St. Hilaire
- Cultural Security
- European Heritage Network (HEREIN)
- Fighting the Illicit Traffic of Cultural Property (ICOM)
- IFAR International Foundation for Art Research
- Illicit Antiquities Research Centre (UK) - now sadly closed
- International Cultural Property Protection (US Dept of State)
- Interpol - stolen art works
- Legal Protection of Cultural Property: A Selective Resource Guide
- Museum Security Network
- Portable Antiquities Scheme (UK)
- The "Looting Question" Bibliography
- Treasure Trove Unit (UK - Scotland)
- UNESCO Cultural Heritage Laws Database
- UNESCO Website
- UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects
Apologists and Propagandists of the Current Form of the No-Questions-Asked Antiquities Trade etc.
- 2015 Petition: "Für den Erhalt des privaten Sammelns [sic]"
- Public Submissions on Notice of Receipt by the US State Department of Cultural Property Request From the Government of EGYPT (Docket DOS-2014-0008)
- Cultural Property Observer (Peter Tompa - lawyer)
- Moneta-L (coiney discussion list, mostly US and ancients- biased)
- Unidroit-L (rather moribund 'discussion' group)
- Yahoo Ancient Artifacts discussion group
- Uncleanedcoin Chat List
- The Ancient Art Market (blog, some "art consultant")
- Ancient Coin Coillectors' Guild (US lobby group)
- Ancient Coins & Cultural Heritage (blog, De La Fe - US coin dealer)
- Ancient Coins (Dave Welsh - US part-time coin dealer)
- Ancient Coin Collecting (Wayne Sayles - US coin dealer)
- Ancient & World Coin Geek (blog, US coin dealer)
- Ancient Coin Trade (Jorg Lueke - US coin collector)
- Public Submissions on Notice of Receipt by the US State Department of Cultural Property Request From the Government of GREECE (Docket DOS-2010-0339)
- Past Times and Present tensions (John Hooker)
False "Barford" Blogs, Not Actually by Paul Barford
Abbreviations used in this blog
- "coiney" - a term I use for private collector of dug up ancient coins, particularly a member of the Moneta-L forum or the ACCG
- "heap-of-artefacts-on-a-table-collecting" the term rather speaks for itself, an accumulation of loose artefacts with no attempt to link each item with documented origins. Most often used to refer to metal detectorists (ice-cream tubs-full) and ancient coin collectors (Roman coins sold in aggregated bulk lots)
- "tekkie" - metal detectorist/metal detecting (a form of artefact hunting)
- ACCG - Ancient Coin Collectors' (sic) Guild
- CBA - Council for British Archaeology [UK]
- CCPIA (CPIA) - (Convention on) Cultural Property Implementation Act [US legislation]
- CDE - Collection-Driven Exploitation of archaeological sites
- CPAC - Cultural Property Advisory Committee [US]
- FLO - Finds Liaison Officer (post in the PAS)
- HER - Historic Environment Record [UK]
- IAPN - International Association of Professional Numismatists
- MENA - Middle East and North Africa
- PAS - Portable Antiquities Scheme
- PNG - Professional Numismatists' Guild
- UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- UNESCO 1970 Convention - Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property
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