tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post9200049601836326596..comments2024-03-27T04:46:33.198-07:00Comments on Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Date for your diaryPaul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-82275808714472823852009-10-21T21:25:31.736-07:002009-10-21T21:25:31.736-07:00Interestingly, Peter Tompa's post on the same ...Interestingly, Peter Tompa's post on the same topic was apparently made a full eight hours after mine http://moneta-l-bloggers.blogspot.com/ but the time the blog says it was posted suggests it was before.... <br /><br />Anyway Tompa's take on this is here: http://culturalpropertyobserver.blogspot.com/2009/10/public-hearing-on-interim-review-of.html<br /><br />he says he wishes there had been more notice, but I think Mr Tompa is not being entirely honest with his readers. A little birdie told me about this meeting long before the actual announcement, and I am pretty sure somebody with Mr Tompa's connections would have known well before the news got to Poland... Oh well. <br /><br />Anyway if you live nearby, try and get along and join in.....<br /><br />Tompa explicitly notes:<br />"Those writing should also comply with the State Department's request that comments solely address Art. II, Italy's obligations. This can include <b>discussions about Italy's stewardship of its own cultural property</b> as well as <b>whether Italy should consider</b> programs like the U.K.'s Treasure Act and PAS". <br /><br />He does not indicate whether representatives of the Italian authorities were invited to respond to the suggestions made by US collectors (oh, sorry "members of the US public") that they should abandon their current legislation and adopt the more liberal British forms. Even if they do not, <b>that is quite a separate issue from whether the US should check when someone imports antiquities froim Italy (and actually anywhere else) that they had been exported legally</b>. After all, who in the US wants to buy items which have been illegally produced and illegally exported? I do not think US dugup coin COLLECTORS would admit to wanting that - I bet even coin dealers will say publicly that they do not "want" to either...Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com