Stolen Art Alert
Volume 1, No. 9
September 1980
Fraud Proliferates as Art Investments Rise
— Linda J. Walder
The rising number of art fraud conspiracies should be a lesson for collectors and investors to investigate the authority and qualifications of art dealers and to authenticate art works and their provenance
Three Important Pre-Columbian Bowls
Stolen from Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans.
New York Gallery Thefts Continue
Detailed description of thief who stole an Alexander Archipenko bronze from a midtown gallery.
Jewelry Losses at Auction Houses in New York and London
Thieves substitute fake pieces for real ones.
Notice: Stolen Money Orders
Some may have been used to buy antiques.
Recovery
Janet Culbertson paintings.
Mexican Capers
Five paintings stolen July 1980 from San Carlos Museum in Mexico City recovered.
