Cultural Property Observer

A Web Log Championing the Longstanding Interests of Collectors in the Preservation, Study, Display and Enjoyment of Cultural Artifacts Against an "Archaeology Over All" Perspective

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

PAS and Treasure Act Records over 920,000 Archaeological Finds

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Last week's news of the new Bulgarian and renewed China MOUs overshadowed good news coming out of the UK- the Portable Antiquities Sche...

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Coin World on Bulgarian Restrictions

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Coin World, a publication that is mainly directed at collectors of American coins, has published this article about recent import restricti...

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Himmler Letters Now in Israel

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Letters between SS Chief Heinrich Himmler and his wife have surfaced in Israel. They appear to support "the banality of evil" o...

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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Cashing In

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Hollywood is not the only one seeking to cash in on the new "Monuments Men" movie. Not surprisingly, anti-collecting academics ar...

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Friday, January 24, 2014

Context Matters

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Or, so CPO thought. Yet, archaeo-blogger Rick St. Hilaire offers no context with his selective quotations from the Fourth Circuit's op...

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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Two-Thirds of Americans Think Government Too Big, Too Powerful

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According to a recent Gallup poll, two-thirds of Americans think the Government is too big and too powerful and are dissatisfied with how i...

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

ACCG FOIAs State and Customs About Bulgarian Designated List

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The Ancient Coin Collectors Guild has served Freedom of Information Requests on the State Department and U.S. Customs seeking information a...

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Cultural Property Observer: Washington, DC, United States; Peter Tompa has collected ancient coins for almost 50 years. He has written and lectured about cultural property issues for a decade. He is a contributor to a chapter on numismatics in K. Fitz Gibbon ed., "Who Owns the Past?" (Rutgers 2005). He has lobbied members of the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch in an effort to ensure that the small businesses of the numismatic trade receive fair treatment from federal regulators. He currently serves as a board member of the Cultural Policy Research Institute and the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild. He also has been a co-chair of the American Bar Association's Art & Cultural Heritage Law Committee. His advocacy has received notice in the media, including the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Art Newspaper and the Voice of America. He hopes his views as a collector and lawyer will provide a counterpoint to the "archaeology over all" perspective found in most blogs about cultural property issues. This Web page is a public resource for general information and opinion about cultural property issues, and is not intended to be a source for legal advice. Opinions expressed here are the author's own.

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