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Case Summary
United States v. Six Paintings Seized from Paul Gorzocoski III d/b/a Northfield Auctions
United States v. Six Paintings Seized from Paul Gorzocoski III, Civ. No. 08-cv-10161-RWZ (D. Mass. filed Feb. 1, 2008).
Précis
In 2007, Northfield Auctions in Massachusetts offered six Italian and German landscape paintings for sale, all coming from the estate of a U.S. Army veteran. The paintings, which had been part of the Bavarian State Painting Collection prior to World War II and were listed as a wartime loss, were seized by the United States on behalf of Bavaria.
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