EVERYONE A CROOK OR JUST A BIT SHADY

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Boy, it never ends.

Everyone in the artifact/relic business is looking out for their own.......and the archies are the worst of all.

But let you or I pick something off the ground and they are all over us.

Getty lawyers link art to probed dealers

Items compiled from Tribune news services
Published September 26, 2005

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNI A -- Attorneys for the J. Paul Getty Museum have determined that half the masterpieces in its antiquities collection were purchased from dealers now under investigation for allegedly selling artifacts looted from ruins in Italy.

Italian authorities have identified dozens of objects in the Getty collection as looted, including ancient urns, vases and a 5-foot marble statue of Apollo.

In response to the Italian investigation, Getty lawyers combed museum files and questioned staff members in 2001.

The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday that it obtained hundreds of pages of Getty records, some of them related to the museum's internal review.



Copyright ? 2005, Chicago Tribune



all have a good un.............
SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS

 

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[ZumbroKid]

Very common practice in the antiquities market. We have all seen sold to undisclosed buyer.

 

[dano91]

How about the Archie from Smithsonian who had a blunderbus on his wall at home?
Semi private collection?

 

[snake35]

Unfortunately the big auction houses and museums are the worst for this sort of things. Especially where religious artifacts are stolen or illegally smuggled into the U.S.

 

[MalteseFalcon]

heh....do some searching on the net and read about the antiquities dealer in Israel who was convicted of forging numerous ancient "artifacts". His most famous was the ossuary of James, brother of Jesus, as well as the "Tablet Of Solomon".