I wrote about items stolen from museums and elsewhere last week at http://goo.gl/r93Fl. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police originally estimated that about 800 items had been recovered with a value of perhaps a half million dollars. The police are now becoming archivists via on-the-job training. As they catalog more and more items found in the alleged thief's home, they have now found 1,300 items and the value is unknown, although obviously still climbing.
Items catalogued so far include hundreds of antiques, rare books, pieces of art carefully displayed, part of a trove that included a suit of armour, a large oil painting of a seascape, old marriage certificates and papers associated with the historic schooner, the Bluenose.
Items catalogued so far include hundreds of antiques, rare books, pieces of art carefully displayed, part of a trove that included a suit of armour, a large oil painting of a seascape, old marriage certificates and papers associated with the historic schooner, the Bluenose.
You can read more and see pictures of a few of the items in an article by Bruce Campion-Smith in The Star at http://goo.gl/bqOIc.
Note the suits of armor in the pictures. Doesn't everyone have suits of armor in their homes?
My thanks to newsletter reader Herb Proudley for telling me about this article.
