Archaeological masterpieces stolen from Drents Museum in Assen

Drents Museum (Netherlands) ^ | January 25, 2025 | news page

[SunkenCiv]

Coțofenești helmet, 450 BCE, National History Museum of Romania.

Photo: Ing. Marius Amarie

[SunkenCiv]

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https://www.politie.nl/en/news/2025/januari/25/burglary-following-explosion-at-drents-museum-in-assen.html

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Is there a market for stolen museum pieces?

Why would anyone purchase something they could never admit they possessed?

[Leaning Right]

Maybe the thieves will hold the items for ransom.

Or maybe the items will end up in the hush-hush collection of some Saudi prince.

[SunkenCiv]

Such things are probably never done speculatively, but by very skilled thieves hired by very wealthy collectors with, in effect, private museums.

[The story of the missing James Bond vehicle]

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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Makes sense. Thanks.

[HKMk23]

Anybody seen Carmen Sandiego?

[jerod]

There is a market for gold... The pieces have likely been melted down. Helmet? What helmet?

[SunkenCiv]

LOL

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

[SaveFerris]

[Archaeological masterpieces]

OH MY GOSH!!!

The Hunter Biden collection?

[SaveFerris]

[Adder]

It got pinched because those eyes are just hypnotic!
Bracelets...just to accessorize!

[ComputerGuy]

Why have something like this when you can’t share it. So you can fondle it in private?

[PIF]

Is there a market for stolen museum pieces?

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A huge market and a very lucrative one for the thieves and the recipient, if he sells it privately.

[FoxInSocks]

Wasn’t someone wearing something like that in the Capitol on January 6th?

[SunkenCiv]

Sorry, I'm distracted by this, uh, never mind. ;^)

The new "owner" has something no one else has, and can appreciate in private. Probably runs in a small circle of similar people, and they're always trying to show off their latest to each other.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, it beats that plastic white mask and black cape.

[dfwgator]

That would violate The Geneva Convention