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Someone is stealing Christopher Columbus letters
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Re: Someone is stealing Christopher Columbus letters
#32> One of the most valuable art collections in Europe isn't housed in a museum visited by millions of tourists, but in this warehouse in the back of his police station. It's basically an evidence locker for stolen artifacts. This is a Caravaggio. What does a Caravaggio go for these days? It is millions of dollars. It is a paint stolen at the end of 1990 and was from a private house. What's not explained is why are pol…
> ...was stolen from in 1990. Why hasn't at least this particular piece been returned to its owner?
Just because it was stolen in the 90s does not mean they have been holding on to it the whole time. It might have been recovered 6 months before this 60 Minutes episode was filmed and they are still holding it as evidence for a trial.
Re: Someone is stealing Christopher Columbus letters
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/christopher-colu... "Although Columbus enjoyed a substantial revenue from Hispaniola gold during the last years of his life, he repeatedly attempted (unsuccessfully) to gain an audience with King Ferdinand, whom he felt owed him further redress." So I'm thinking - well off, but not wealthy.
His heirs also had 30 years of lawsuits or so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleitos_colombinos
amazing that you could sue the King...
Re: Someone is stealing Christopher Columbus letters
#34Probably Hobby Lobby’s owners. They’ve been known to pay for stolen historical objects.
They sure have! They smuggled in $3M of Iraqi artifacts [1]
[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/01/607582135...
Re: Someone is stealing Christopher Columbus letters
#35> One of the most valuable art collections in Europe isn't housed in a museum visited by millions of tourists, but in this warehouse in the back of his police station. It's basically an evidence locker for stolen artifacts. This is a Caravaggio. What does a Caravaggio go for these days? It is millions of dollars. It is a paint stolen at the end of 1990 and was from a private house. What's not explained is why are pol…
why are police keeping all this artwork?
Evidence locker. If the trial is in course the proofs are locked. There is a period of time between the painting stolen and when was found probably also.
And, I'm speculating, but as an old Caravaggio is really fragile, it could be easily distroyed when stolen. Even if returned to their owners is probably not valid to show again and is not fixable. The owner could prefer to avoid spend money on the storage of a ruined art as long as he/she can.
Re: Someone is stealing Christopher Columbus letters
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks—changed from https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/christopher-columbus-letter... . The software missed that one for some reason.
What the...? Google can host amp links on foreign domains?
They might be using the Signed HTTP Exchanges functionality.