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Email required Address never made public. Both treasures were finally tracked down after decades of vigorous detective work. The toga-clad figure was given back during a high-profile repatriation ceremony in December Ten years later, the artwork was found to have vanished from the storage warehouse where the owners had left the piece for safekeeping.
Detectives hunted for the painting for decades to no avail, but luckily an unsuspecting passer-by had a little more luck…. In the s, the buyer tried to sell the Bill back to North Carolina, but officials insisted it was government property and refused. Another offer to sell it back to the state was made by an anonymous seller in , which the state once again refused. A court declared it the official property of North Carolina. They were noted as missing on 23 April after thieves entered the building overnight in an undetected raid.
White spaces on the walls greeted the guards the next morning. A rather modern treasure, this near-mint condition copy of Action Comics No. The actor received insurance money for the theft, and never expected to see it again.
The masked robbers even made the staff lie down on the floor before taking the collection's most valuable pieces. Painted by French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in , Paysage Bords de Seine was reported missing in and appeared around 60 years later at a flea market in West Virginia in with no indication of where it had been for six decades. Fuqua later said she liked the frame of the napkin-size painting.
Even though a nameplate said "Renoir ", she didn't think the painting was genuine and stored it in a rubbish bag for more than two years before having it valued. To her frustration, in a federal judge ruled that the painting had to be returned to the museum it was stolen from in and the FBI handed it over to the Baltimore Museum of Art, where it's now on display again.
In , former collector and part-time art sleuth Arthur Brand spectacularly recovered the steeds. Two Van Gogh paintings that were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in a heist in were finally found in a farmhouse near Naples, Italy in View of the Sea at Scheveningen pictured and Congregation leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen were found in a box that had been hidden behind a wall in a toilet of the farmhouse.
Masked gunmen entered the museum in broad daylight and made off in a car with the works. At the time the museum had no security cameras. However, the expressionist oil painting was later recovered in the New Mexico bedroom of two former schoolteachers, Jerry and Rita Alter, after Rita died in Jerry passed away five years earlier in No-one knows exactly how the painting ended up in the home of the quiet, unassuming couple pictured , but the two were photographed in Tucson the night before the heist.
They also resemble sketches of the suspects that the investigators released at the time. These sparkling shoes are among the most valuable memorabilia items in movie history. The ruby slippers were famously worn by actress Judy Garland in the fantasy musical The Wizard of Oz. However, in one of the seven pairs made for the film was stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The thief had broken in through a window late at night. Missing since , this 18th-century Ethiopian bronze crown was recently handed back to the Ethiopian government.
It was discovered by political refugee Sirak Asfaw, who had fled the country for the Netherlands in the s, in the suitcase of another refugee who was staying in his Rotterdam flat in The crown features images of Christ and the 12 apostles and there are thought to be just 12 in existence. In , these two Visigothic carvings dating back to the 7th century were stolen from the Santa Maria de Lara church in northern Spain.
The priceless reliefs, each weighing about lbs 50kg , were tracked down by Dutch art detective Arthur Brand in to an English nobleman's garden, covered in mud and leaves after being used as ornaments. Swedish royal jewels have been targeted by criminals on more than one occasion. After nabbing the items, the thieves cycled to a speedboat standing by at a nearby lake and made a swift getaway. In February , the items were recovered from a rubbish bin in a suburb of Stockholm.
They had been dumped among other waste despite being composed of gold, pearls, and precious stones. A year-old man was jailed for four years after his DNA was found on the jewels and he confessed to the theft. However, in the police department got a call from someone at an auction house in Southern California saying that he recognized some of the paintings on the department's website.
This led the police to recover as many as paintings and artifacts. They are currently in the process of identifying the individual pieces, and hope to reunite the lost treasures with their former owners in the future. In , extensive restoration work took place on the world-famous Stonehenge stones in England. On completing his part of the work excavation team member Robert Phillips decided to take a piece of the prehistoric monument with him. Phillips left with a centimeter core from one of the sarsen stones, which had been drilled out so that metal rods could be inserted to keep the stones upright.
Phillips then took the 5,year-old slither of stone to America when he emigrated in and experts assumed the core was gone for good The night before his 90th birthday in , Phillips told family members that it was time to return the piece of Stonehenge, which he had been displaying in his office for the last 60 years. His sons Robin and Lewis delivered the core, which had been kept in pristine condition, themselves. The boat was moored just off Antibes in , which is where Picasso famously once lived.
The colorful masterpiece was usually protected by an alarm system, along with other high price works, but was removed to an on-board bank vault during a party. When it was opened, the picture was gone. Several fakes were offered in return for the cash. As he unpeeled two plastic bags he knew it was, finally, the real deal.
As they cleared ivy from the gallery's exterior walls, they came across a painting hidden in an alcove which had been concealed by a metal panel. The painting was in good condition, and immediately experts suspected it was a work by Austrian painter Gustav Kilmt called Portrait of a Lady pictured that had been stolen from the gallery more than 20 years before.
However, while the painting, which Klimt finished the year before he died in , has been recovered, the story behind its theft remains a mystery. Investigators are now examining organic material found on the recovered canvas in the hope it will reveal the truth.
In January , the descendants of a Jewish lawyer and art collector were finally reunited with artworks that had been stolen by Nazis during the occupation of France during World War II.
The artworks were taken in when Gimpel was arrested by Nazi soldiers, and tragically the collector died the following year at the Neuengamme concentration camp in Hamburg, Germany. The five-hour heist was like a scene from a spy film, with two criminals drilling holes in the ceiling and abseiling down into the building to snatch the collection of books. The men stashed the books in 16 holdall bags, and escaped with the help of a third man assigned the job of getaway driver. The crime scene was soon discovered, and police forces across Europe pulled together to begin the hunt for the books and their thieves A three-year investigation ensued in an attempt to find the collection, which included rare first editions by the likes of Sir Isaac Newton and Galileo.
Their hiding place? A cement pit beneath a house in Romania. In Septmber , the perpetrators were revealed to be members of an organized crime group, and 13 men have since been charged while the books have been safely recovered. He actually thought that it was fake, but got in contact with police once the appeal for information on the burglary went public. The manuscript was returned to Fu, but sadly not in its original condition — at some point during the theft the 2.
One of the suspected burglars has been arrested, but the other two have yet to be found…. In October , one such tourist sent a package of pieces she had stolen to a travel agent in Pompeii…. The Canadian woman, known only as Nicole, sent a letter along with the artifacts explaining that the pieces were cursed, and that she had had non-stop bad luck since stealing them in In a similar case, the Museo Nazionale Romano in Rome, Italy received a chunk of marble in the post in November last year after an American tourist regretted having stolen it in It had been missing for almost half a century.
The tower, which was built between and , had long since had its locks changed, but the key remains an important part of its history. The sender remains anonymous but the organization is offering a free membership to encourage the mystery thief to get in touch. This January a family from Bordeaux in western France hired investigators to explore the provenance of some armour they had inherited.
These investigators soon revealed that the Renaissance-era armour, which was made in Milan, was in fact the treasure that had been taken from the Louvre more than 40 years ago. Police are now investigating who may have stolen them in the first place, and how they came to be in Bordeaux. The mystery continues for now The French government has announced that it will return the only Gustav Klimt painting in its national collection to the Jewish family it was stolen from by the Nazis back in French culture minister Roselyne Bachelot pictured with the painting said the authorities weren't aware it had been stolen by the Nazis until recently.
The oil painting will be returned to the family of Nora Stiasny, who was a victim of the Holocaust. France has been trying to reunite stolen artworks with the families of those they were taken from.
An amateur metal detectorist discovered treasure worth thousands on his first ever hunt in Worcestershire, England earlier this year. Charles Cartwright found Roman and Viking jewellery, as well as some ancient Egyptian relics and medieval and Bronze Age pieces pictured , using his metal detector. After finding the pieces Cartwright reported them to the landowner and the authorities, who went on to discover something even more remarkable about the treasures Rather than being buried there over time, it was soon found that the items were actually those taken during a house burglary in It's thought whoever took the valuable treasures decided to bury them.
The pieces have now been returned to their rightful owner, who had "resigned [them]selves that [they] wouldn't get them back as they had been gone that long". The investigation into who took the pieces in the first place is ongoing. The Greek authorities are celebrating following the recovery of two paintings stolen from the National Gallery in Athens nine years ago.
At the time, police believed the theft was the work of two people but they discovered it was actually a year-old builder. The thief told police he had been watching the gallery's staff's movements for six months before he struck.
He set off an alarm in another part of the building and removed the two paintings from their frames. He also stole a sketch by Italian artist Guglielmo Caccia and another Mondrian, which he dropped on his way out of the gallery. The thief stored the two paintings at his home before moving them, wrapped in plastic sheets, to a dried-up riverbed outside Athens, which is where they were found. The thief apparently had no intention of selling them.
The Greek culture minister said the National Gallery's "greatest wound has been healed". Extensive investigations followed, leading the police to search an apartment at the end of May…. The painting was finally seized by police, although details of the theft itself have yet to be clarified.
Three perpetrators — two men and a woman — are at the centre of the investigation. Investigations into antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor led to 24 of the 27 treasures being unearthed and the notorious smuggler is currently awaiting trial in India.
Among the artifacts recovered by the authorities are a statue of Shiva one interpretation of the Hindu god is pictured and a Buddhist sandstone sculpture of Prajnaparamita. Pompeii in Italy is a rich source of historical treasures, which also makes it a popular spot for looters.
Three frescoes dating back to the first century AD are thought to have been sliced off the walls in two Roman villas in the ancient city of Stabiae, which is close to Pompeii, in the s, before they were illegally exported out of the country. The Civita Giuliana frescoes were recovered by police in after they uncovered a tunnel that led straight to the ancient villa. The passageway had served as a secret way of stealing the artworks. A criminal trial now awaits the thieves who are believed to have been responsible.
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