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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;reader, post: 2569704, member: 255&quot;]Such a sensitive topic. No easy answers but my personal opinion is that items that were bought legally belong to the current owner and it’s their right to do whatever they want with the items including selling them to the highest bidder. Obviously this doesn’t apply to items that can be documented as having been stolen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding Nazi items, I definitely have an opinion and it’s pretty much the same as the above. I know Jews ( and I’m a non practicing Jew) who collect the stuff (appalling to me but whatever) as they want to make sure that the stuff stays out of neo groups and they also feel that they’re flipping Hitler off if the objects live in Jewish homes. Pretty much the same sensibility as blacks who collect Black Americana. That’s why I thought it was insane for ebay to pull the category for “sensitivity”. It’s predominately blacks who collect it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Where does it end? There’s probably more of Ancient Greece in the British Museum than in Greece and there’s no western Mexican shaft tomb MesoAmerican pieces in any US museum that weren’t initially looted IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry but if NA pieces were originally legally sold for whatever reason, IMO return to the individual tribes is a lovely gift but a gift that is the choice of the owner to give or not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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