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IFAR identifies a copy of Lady Sophia Charlotte Sheffield

Senior Special Agent Charles Kozcka was the first and only U.S. Customs agent assigned to investigate art theft and smuggling, a position he suggested in 1973. The article recounts his arrests and his beliefs, including advocacy for the 1970 UNESCO Convention.

Cleveland Museum of Art will lend the Louvre the Nicolas Poussin painting, Holy Family on the Steps, that was the subject of a six-year-long export-license dispute.

Accused of falsely reporting theft of 37 pre-Columbian figurines.

Black-figure lekythos, stolen in 1982 from Kerameikos Museum, Athens.

Pictures and Civil War autographs recovered in New York.

Paintings: Du Bois. Prints, Drawings: Laurencin. Sculpture: Spanish, 12th century. Decorative Arts, Enamels: French, 13th century.

Roman second century A.D. sarcophagus stolen in Rome.

Hopewell, New Jersey American 19th-century furniture and folk art. Maastricht, The Netherlands: Nine paintings, (illustrations now included) by Brueghel the Younger, Eva Gonzalès, Hobbema, Pissarro, Renoir, Teniers the Younger, Trouillebert, and van de Velde the Younger. London, England: Renoir, Bouquet of Anemones in a Green Vase, stolen from Wildenstein & Co., in April. Marshalltown, Iowa: Monet stolen from community center. New York, New York: Three 17th-century drawings, by van Mieris, Simonsz van der Schalcke, and van Haecht. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Important Lagoon figure of drummer, from Musée National of the Ivory Coast. Wirges, West Germany 19th-century statues from church. St. Gall, Switzerland: Books and lithographs from library and historical museum. Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania: Louis Icart etchings.