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Of two gouaches submitted to IFAR, one, Two Women with a Parrot, is an original, the other, Woman with Butterflies, is a forgery

Governor Cuomo rejects statute of limitations on stolen-art suits to recover museum acquisitions. IFAR, some federal agencies and museums organizations objected to the bill, which was too close to a 1985 bill, recalled for redrafting at the request of the Attorney General. Related proposal for a national acquisitions registry would give original owners a better chance to track their property.

Portrait of a Rabbi, stolen in 1978 from M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Detective Thomas Moscardini warns of buyers who try to pass bogus certified checks after banking hours.

Prints, Drawings Chagall, Miró. Candlesticks, Candelabra, Lamps: Daum and Brandt, Gallé. Glass Gallé, Lalique, Richard.

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Pictures seized in Italy in March 1985.

Blessington, Ireland: Beit mansion theft of 11 paintings, valued between $30 and $45 million, includes Vermeer, Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid and other paintings by Metsu, Palamedes, Gainsborough, Rubens, Vestier, Guardi, and Goya. Budapest, Hungary: Three Flemish mid-16th-century Life of St. Lucy paintings. London, England: Three galleries report thefts and rewards. New York, New York: Antiquities including Phoenician striding bronze figure, Attic lekythos, and Attic red-figure kylix. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Reward for Alexander the Great gold coin.