King's old brass sparks legal joust

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | Sunday, April 13, 2003 | Michael A. Fuoco

[Willie Green]

This is no fairy tale, even though it involves a centuries-dead British knight, a lady distressed, heraldry, provenance and a joust for justice.

It is instead a present-day international art story in search of a happy ending, a drama being played out among a 12th-century church in a tiny English village, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a Grove City family and a Tennessee art professor.

[Arkinsaw]

Something stolen out of a church and the museums want to keep it even though they are not displaying it and paid nothing for it.

Not particularly decent of them.

[bert]

The solution is pretty simple. Swear a warrant for the musem keeper on charges of posession of stolen property.

Then, sue the museum in perpaturity for pain and mental anguish for tomb desecration and loss of sacred artifacts.

Then, start worrying the piss out of every Philadelphia politico and make them personall involved in reprehensible behavio.

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[hometoroost]

I'm all for returning plundered antiquities to their rightful owners. The Brits need to ask themselves if that's a precedent they want set.

They could end up emptying much of the British Museum.