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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 9600022, member: 56&quot;]And then there&#039;s &quot;Children under a Palm&quot; by Winslow Homer:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Under_a_Palm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Under_a_Palm" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Under_a_Palm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I remember there was an &quot;expert&quot; on the eBay boards who I always suspected of dealing pilfered pieces from Southeast Asia.&nbsp; He was an American living over there (in Thailand as I remember), and I got the impression that he had managed to ingratiate himself to high ranking officials and was acting as intermediary between them and western dealers for items stolen from what should have been archeological sites.</p><p><br /></p><p>On these boards we just saw that story of the $100,000 vase found for pennies in a Goodwill.&nbsp; Does Goodwill have a claim?&nbsp; Do the people who donated it have a claim?</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t we all want to buy things for pennies at garage sales and sell them for thousands?&nbsp; Would we owe anything to the people who sold them?</p><p><br /></p><p>Is possession nine tenths of the law?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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