Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues

A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.

Saturday, 24 April 2010

Stolen Indian Statue Sold in New York, Despite being on Interpol Stolen Art Database

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. Interpol news 22 April 2010 , The statue of two Asian deities was stolen in September 2009 from the ruins of a temple in Atru in the ...
Friday, 23 April 2010

Attorney wants Evidence Rejected in Artefacts Theft Case

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Associated Press: Attorney wants evidence tossed in artifacts case , 04/22/10 GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. — An attorney wants evidence thrown o...

Barford wants evidence Produced in "Ancient Artifacts" case

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Ten days ago Tim Haines from Evesham Worcester, after making sure I could not answer him, put a thread on the Yahoo "Ancient Artifacts...
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Three more Utahns plead guilty in artefacts theft case

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Another three Southern Utah men accused after a lengthy federal crackdown on theft and trafficking of American Indian relics in the Four Cor...

New Move in St Louis Mask Case?

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According to Ula Ilnytzkye ( Egyptian official chides museums over antiquities - AP 22/4/10) Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's ...
Thursday, 22 April 2010

Auction House Did not Check, or had they Hoped that Nobody Would Notice?

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. David Gill (in his post Bonhams and the Medici Statue: Lot Withdrawn ) draws attention to an egregious example of failed due diligence ...
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Nearly Two Thousand Antiquity Collectors gave Italy the Finger...

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. Let the record show that by means of some panic-mongering hyperbole and manipulation by a small coterie of US dealers in ancient coins (se...
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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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