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Last month's reports of incidents with cultural property. You can
read the full reports at the Museum Security Website.

September 2,
- Thieves bargain for freedom in major US art theft (Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum)
- Museum canvasses latest tip on stolen  art (Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum)
- Gardner officials  encouraged by reporter's recall of painting
(Isabella Stewart  Gardner Museum)
- Two `art lovers' offer FBI a deal for return of  stolen
masterpieces (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)
- Manassas, Late Bids to Keep Artifacts, Rohr's Museum to Put History
on  Auction Block
- Herzog agrees to return Amber Room furniture

August 31
- Risks of lending to museums - are there any?
- Antique dealer now demands Connor release (Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum)
- Request (Gardner Museum case)
- Meeting on art heist expected (Gardner Museum case)
- New Dickinson Poem purchased for $24,150 Proved Fake

August 27
- Once-magnificent library is tattered and worn
- Searching for  stolen art/antiquities
- Why the auction is the enemy of art
- Wood expert casts doubt on dating of masterpiece
- FBI Has Lead in 1990 Art Heist (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)

August 23
- Fountain vandal to sue over fall
- US reportedly wants to talk to Connor on Gardner theft
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania (protest against selling and
dispersing the Society's historic arts and artifacts collection)
- Romans seek crackdown after vandals break statue
- Provinces Help Tibet Protect Relics
- The Real Enemy of the Arts

August 21
- Jury indicts historical-documents dealer again
- Tourist  in icy plunge to save Rome fountain
- Bernini fountain damaged by  bathers (same story as above:
different reporter, different paper): damage to the fountain
comes after a series of assaults  on priceless Italian sculptures
and works of art of world  importance.

August 19
- sentenced only to 15 months' of  jail time
- Archive Disaster in Poland
- Fire Damages Hubert Humphrey Museum
- Who's Who burglary gang knew what's what

August 18
- Auction house tip puts police on trail of £1m art gang
- Broker Charged with Art Theft (No plea entered in art fraud
case)
- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum renews reward offer
for stolen artwork

August 15
- Stolen Narwhal Tusk
- Banned Apartheid Painting Returned
- Police question suspect in Picasso theft
- Man gets 15 months in stolen art sting

August 12
- Conflicting warnings on old library murals
- Museums Seek to Protect Art Images on Internet
- Dealer says he's unfairly targeted
- Pages in the Annals of Art Theft. Officials Applaud Return Of
Medieval Folios
- High Society Art Broker Accused of  Scam

August 7
- damage to Polish libraries
- Museum's prize painting 'fake'
- Debate Regarding Authenticity of Ancient Egyptian Art

August 5
- Amber Room still haunts
- most of  the stolen art ends up being sold at Japanese auctions??
- Mysterious Museum

August 2
- Misfortune surrounds alleged van Gogh painting set for auction
- Professional art thieves steal Smuts portrait from club
- Stolen pre-Civil War era sword returned to Westbrook shop

August 1
- Floods in Poland destroy libraries
- THE ART WORLD'S SPOILS OF WAR

July 31
- Italy Cops Recover $3M in Art
- John Lennon etchings stolen from Amsterdam Gallery


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