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Subject: [Leica] Stolen Steve McCurry photos
From: csaganich at gmail.com (CJ andS)
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 12:45:10 -0400
References: <556F8AB4.4050506@cox.net> <556FAD2A.7080704@cox.net> <CAAsXt4MkdXwkd+AU4o9Z5GzRFba+qZ1gte5UZZua29k5tjQzOg@mail.gmail.com>

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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Chris Saganich
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