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...were outbursts of fantasy about a supergang of ultraprofessionals, specialists in pinching masterpieces for some Dr. No in a remote art bunker outside Osaka, Bogota or Geneva. Even the museum's director, Anne Hawley, suggested that the robbers had been following a "hit list" given them by a mastermind collector. But it seems unlikely. Apart from a Greek plutocrat who tried, and failed, to commission some heavies to lift a Raphael from a museum in Budapest in 1983, no trace of this glamorous fiction has ever been found in real life. This was more like the Gang That Couldn...
...antique collector, Stephen C. Blumberg, 41, was arrested in Ottumwa, Iowa early Tuesday morning and charged with interstate transportation of stolen goods, a Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesperson said...
Safire and his stylish, British-born wife Helene, a jewelry designer, live in an expansive Georgian home in suburban Chevy Chase, Md., purchased in 1969. The rare-book-lined elegance (Safire is an avid collector) is marred only by a series of small white gates to keep the couple's two Bernese mountain dogs, Heidi and James, at bay. No longer at home are their two children: Mark, 25, a computer-software specialist, and Annabel, 24, a painter. Gracious hosts, the Safires are known for their break-the-fast party after Yom Kippur. Amid the memorabilia that fill the house...
...changed. "Doctors used to be our customers, but they can't afford the furniture anymore," says Harold. "Now our customers are educated Americans who don't survive on an income; rather, they have large sums of capital from the sale of a company or real estate." The most celebrated collector is Bill Cosby, who includes reproductions of Early American furniture on the set of his television show...
...holding company through which Bond owned the picture -- defaulted. The auction house rejected this proposal. In late 1988 Bond himself reportedly tried to pass off Irises to the New York megadeveloper Donald Trump as partial payment on a $180 million deal for the St. Moritz Hotel. Trump, no collector, said the painting was worth only $30 million and turned him down...