Interesting story about a huge hoard of widow's mites . Also sheds some light on how coins find their way into the markets. Can anyone explain how the...
Coin HoardI note the The National Philatelic Museum (I did not jot this down when I saw it, but I believe this is the correct name and I believe it is a part...
Coin HoardWell, I just could say that it is a pity. Sure they will find many collectors that would like to "adopt" those stamps.... Destroy is always easy....
Click here: Chicago Tribune | Spirit to preserve, urge to plunder http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/perspective/chi-0409050306sep05,1,763450.story ...
... It is true that most countries have licenses for the export of antiquities. Mr. Brand was talking about recent surface and metal-detector finds. In most...
For my own country, USA, the most recent export coin export license I've been able to discover is the one granted on February 29th, 1944 to King Farouk of...
http://www.finds.org.uk/ A good site, it alsi has links to the Treasure Act which is another positive way of combining archeological interests with those of...
The antiquities laws of the United Kingdom are the best and the most sensible of any nation. All collectors and detectorists in the UK should be careful to...
Another triumph for the UK Antiquities laws (apologies for the long URL): http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?flok=FF-RTO-roitz&idq=/ff/story/0 ...
Here is an article on this Greek statue (supposedly by Praxiteles) recently acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art that sheds a bit of light on the ...
... Perhaps you did not read my post carefully. What I actually said was: "According to the article, the museum made a good faith effort to ascertain the...
Another example of how good antiquities laws lead to cooperation with authorities has just occurred in the United Kingdom: (apologies for the long URL) ...
The Cleveland Museum evidently got more than it bargained for when it acquired this work of art. It also acquired a major and enduring controversy. ...
... I urge all collectors and dealers to study this post carefully, and appreciate the importance of its content. Archaeologists who stick to their scientific...
More unfavorable (and biased) publicity about site looting: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id= 8536 If you read the...
Archaeologists and source state cultural ministries have no interest in supplying collectors with provenanced antiquities and rarely if ever release such ...
In a message dated 10/1/2004 12:23:15 AM Central Standard Time, ... Dear Dave, Your comment above brings to mind the worst possible outcome of UNIDROIT: The...
John, You have it exactly right. There are no people who are more dangerous and more destructive than misguided idealists to whom the end justifies the means. ...
Click here: The Truth About Unidroit Unidroit is a Potential Disaster! Â The British Council's title for a recent conference was "Not for Sale - Looted...
A good example of government protection of antiquities from Iraq Press: Baghdad, Iraq Press, May 29, 2004 – The UN cultural body, UNESCO, has scrapped...
As far as I can tell, what was done in Babylon was not so very much different from what Sir Arthur Evans and his cohorts did in rebuilding the palace of Minos...
Subject: Status of HR 1047 (Iraq Import Restrictions) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 21:29:09 EDT From: Goodetompa@... Dear Group: Please see below. Work on the...
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=39976 Note that the police appear to have treated these archaeologists as potentially being antiquities thieves or...
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