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Museum Security Mailinglist messages July 2 - August 6

August 6, 1999
- The Art of Alarms (Security Management magazine and an article on
museum security in an upcoming issue)
- Tibetan art dealer arrested in attempt to stop relics theft
- FORGERIES, A LONG HISTORY
- Artifacts Illegally Removed
- Concentration camp memorial artist is used to having his work
damaged
- News from CPSC
- Fire Sprinkler Recall
- Stolen Mayan Artifact Returned
- Antiques dealer 'bought item from grave robber'
- Van Gogh Drawing Returned to Heir
- The Theft From The Louvre of the Diamond Sword of Charles X
- U.S. vs an Antique Platter of Gold (Claire Lyons)
- RE: Omega Sprinkers (William Heidecker) - fire protection articles
- Breast-Feeding Bill Considered (at the Smithsonian's Museum of
Natural History, a guard told mother to stop breast-feeding her child
or leave.)
- Parole denied for figure in art theft (Isabella Stewart Gardner
heist)

August 2, 1999
- [Fire Safe Heritage]: Suspicious fire destroys historic church
- Re: [balkans] Croatian museum stripped of its art treasures (Bojan
Indjic)
- Re: disaster preparedness plans (Dorit Straus)
- security systems in Turkey (Turan Dincer)

August 2, 1999
- Collections Database
- Disaster Preparedness Plans
- UKPounds: 20m debt may shut Armouries
- Mystery Van Gogh subject of international search
- Tate faces claim for Nazi art loot (Jewish family says Old Master
was stolen from them)
- Master (Con) Artist; Painting forger Elmyr de Hory's copies are
like the real thing
- Philippine Star news: dinosaur eggs stolen (Sally Shelton)
- Re: Mystery Van Gogh subject of international search (Missing van
Gogh sold to U.S. buyer)
- Director of Security Position opening (U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum)
- Tories call for inquiry into Armouries Museum debt - Coolidge Ring
Stolen
- Croatian museum stripped of its art treasures (Boston Globe)
- Police find lost Dali (picture was on the FBI's list of missing art
works)

July 29, 1999
- RE: Art Inventory Software (Ron Lander)
- Elgin marbles 'staying'
- Wildenstein art collectors sued in New York
- Insurance claims and accessioned objects
- Omega Sprinklers (Roxana Adams)
- IFCPP Progress Report
- Vandals attack Nazi death camp memorial in Germany
- Thieves strip remote Lorna Doone church

July 27, 1999
- RE: Art Inventory Software (Werner Hillebrecht)
- RE: Art Inventory Software (Pamela Scoville)
- RE: A van Gogh went; The missing $82 million painting (Connie
Lowenthal)
- Art Theft in the Movies
- The Thomas Crown Affair (fiction) (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- [Fire Safe Heritage]: Fwd: Fire damages 3 historic buildings in San
Angelo, Texas
- Colditz Escape Museum & Castle (Antony Anderson)
- Postings of Stolen Antiquities (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Plan to return the Elgin Marbles
- Egypt split over Rosetta Stone celebrations

July 26, 1999
- RE: 'Count' steals art worth millions (Patrick Vyvyan)
- Re: Control Room Security (Henry Homrighaus Jr.)
- IFCPP (Steve Layne)
- Trojan Gold Will Remain in Russia
- http://museum-security.org/balkans (Jadran Kale)
- Stolen Korean ceramics found (Soeren M. Chr. Bisgaard)
- Looted Nazi painting turns up in Israel
- Museum 'will return stolen oil painting'
- Spain's Prado reopens Velazquez rooms after leaks
- Art Inventory Software (R.Rogers)
- A van Gogh went; The missing $82 million painting

July 21, 1999
- Moderator's message: Continuation of the Museum Security:
Mailinglist and Website garanteed for at least two more years!

- Numismatic theft - Stolen Coins (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- query: painting sensors (Ricky Bush)
- Lyon library fire website
- query: info on security control room security and operations (Rahman
B. Saladdin)
- RE: security devices for paintings
- A 20th-Century Master Scam (The Myatt/Drewe case)
- 'Count' steals art worth millions
- Los Angeles eye doctor guilty of art theft fraud - Russian Court
Knocks Down Art Law

July 16, 1999
- Rembrandt Stolen from French Museum
- Risk assessment
- New York agency obtains return of Holocaust art
- Thieves are plundering rare and valuable cultural pieces, and
institutions are powerless to stop them (S.A.) - online most wanted,
list of stolen, lost, looted or censored works of art from around the
world ( http://www.artresources.com/departments/hot.sheet/) - Disaster
plans

July 11, 1999
- Interpol launches CD-ROM of stolen art works
- S.Korea confiscates 'Picasso' after alleged theft
- LA doctor had him steal Picasso, Monet -witness
- Rothschild art auction smashes records
- Russia catalogs artwork lost by Nazi looting during war years
- Looters take millions in Afghan treasures
- Faberge Eggs - "A nice Breakfast at Tiffany's" (Jonathan Sazonoff) -
query: researching famous and/or peculiar art thefts throughout
history

July 9, 1999
- Thais crack down on unscrupulous antique dealers
- Trial opens for L.A. doctor accused in art theft
- Sri Lanka restores blasted Buddhist shrine
- Hurricane Mitch Uncovers Honduras Historic Remains
- Disclosure of Museum Security Arrangements (Peter Orborne)
- Nelson-Atkins Museum picks architect Steven Holl to design addition
- Minneapolis Gallery Owner's 21-Year Quest for Stolen Paintings Ends
With Recovery in Rio MINNEAPOLIS - Book stolen by Nazis sells for
UKPounds:8m - Stonehenge treasures decay for lack of cash - Marble
cracks on Pisa tower

July 6, 1999
- Re: search for eight missing Faberge eggs (Steve Keller)
- Tax rule forces owners to put art on display
- Arson damage to art, gallery totals $200,000 (Automatic sprinklers
put out the flames but not before they ruin all but the most costly
porcelains) - Treasures take a beating in Parliament - New
Whodunit-Style Cairo Exhibit to Trace Stolen, Recovered Treasure
Heritage - Stolen Sculptures Found Buried In Santa Fe Yard - Kosovo
Library Ban Lifted - 10,000 Mexican Artifacts Recovered - Return all
our stolen works of art first, Russia tells Germany

July 3, 1999
- After Global Search, FBI Finds Stolen T.Rex Jawbone
- Official in Ruby Ridge siege to track stolen artwork
- Original key to the Bastille stolen from Sydney wax museum
- Rothschilds to sell art Nazis looted

July 2, 1999
- re: Library fire in France ( Fotinie Efstratiadou-Wisner)
- Austrian Decision Ends Hopes for Restitution on Klimt Works
- http://www.jouve-diffusion.com/ (Interpol CD-Rom Stolen Art Works) -
No Yolk ... the Hunt is On for Missing Faberge Eggs - Ancient Greek
Wreath Disappears - Arrests made in Calgary theft-to-order scheme -
Ex-FBI agent asks inmate for help on Gardner artwork

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