[Leica] Stolen Steve McCurry photos

CJ andS csaganich at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 09:45:10 PDT 2015


If the chainsaw was also used in an additional crime.  Art stolen during
WWII has been hard to recover in many cases.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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