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| 'Just like in England' |
on Tim Haine's Ancient Artifacts Forum, we see another manifestation of pirate ignorance and attempts to place the blame for their failure to keep looted and smuggled artefacts off the commercial market on the 'nig-nogs' of foreign lands ('
The answer is fairly simple but would require each country, or possibly a United Nations directive, to pass a treasure act/law not all that different from the U.K. The looters get credit and monetary return BUT THEIR FINDS ARE REPORTED AND RECORDED. This also allows those in the know and the governments to evaluate each object.
Collector Birbiglia might do well to actually read the laws of the countries he collects artefacts from (how otherwise can he make sure he and his suppliers are abiding by them?). Most of them have legislation requiring precisely that finds made are reported and recorded appropriately. it is precisely those who avoid doing that when it is required who are called 'looters', Mr Birbiglia. Also the collector might be surprised to find how many of the national legislations in fact - rather than collector myth - give 'credit and monetary return' (sic) for reported finds. This is more shallow ignorant collector-tosh. Yes, Mr Birbiglia, the answer is indeed very simple, dealers and collectors should avoid handling any material that cannot be shown with no room for doubt to have arrived on the international market according to the provisions of the law of the source country. Nothing could be clearer, no need for any 'United Nations Directive - beyond the existing 1970 United Nations, Mr Birbiglia, Education and Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) 1970 Convention on, Mr Birbiglio, the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. Simple
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