Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/06/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > -- > Bob Adler > www.robertadlerphotography.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Chris Saganich www.imagebrooklyn.com