[Leica] Stolen Steve McCurry photos

Robert Adler rgacpa at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 19:04:19 PDT 2015


Yeah. I don't know either. Never collected art nor bought a chain saw in a
pawn shop either...

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:

> Don't know.  If I buy a chain saw in a pawn shop and it turns out to be
> stolen...?  I'm sure there is a protocol for that somewhere.
>
> On 6/3/2015 8:06 PM, Robert Adler wrote:
>
>> Hmmm. I would think that the rightful owner is the one it is stolen from,
>> no matter where it ends up. Ignorance is no excuse: why would art be
>> different from say a car? Someone steals my car, someone buys it from the
>> thief unknowing it's stolen, so do I, the victim loose my car?
>> Or am I missing something...
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/famed-photographer-asst-stole-650g-worth-prints-da-article-1.2244006
>>>
>>> I wonder what happens when a collector buys a stolen print like this?
>>> I'm
>>> guessing the collector can keep it so long as he/she was not complicit.
>>> Far from the same facts, but we have an interesting case going on in
>>> Oklahoma now, where OU has a Pissaro painting stolen from the owner
>>> during
>>> WWII.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.oudaily.com/news/ou-museum-holds-pieces-of-art-with-wwii-nazi-connections/article_f4911dfe-654e-11e4-80ac-0017a43b2370.html
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
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