Featured Thieves blow open museum door.

Discussion in 'Antique Discussion' started by bosko69, May 31, 2025.

  1. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

    Last edited: May 31, 2025
  2. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    As far as I know they are members of a Dutch illegal biker gang who worked for a Romanian gangster. Which probably means the crown and bracelets are still intact, because he will use them in return for a lighter sentence or some other type of exchange.
     
  3. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

    I'm hoping that's the case-amazing artifacts.
     
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  4. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    He's probably going to use the threat of melting them down into ingots.
     
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  5. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

    Good deduction Ruth-remember Auric Goldfinger ? He was going to turn the US Gold Depository radioactive.
     
  6. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    ahh , the ol' days of getting away with calling Bond girls , sexy slut names !!!!!
    ;)...:eek:.....:hungry::hungry:
     
  7. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    That will never work. They know he would never do that because the pieces are worth much more as Rumania's national treasure than as mere ingots.
     
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  8. Chinoiserie

    Chinoiserie Well-Known Member

    A lot easier to sell as scrap gold though unfortunately with no trail of evidence back to them. With the price of gold as it is, I know what I'd do.
     
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  9. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    They won't be interested in selling it, art and antiquities like these are stolen for leverage or ransom, not for scrap value. It happens regularly.
    Besides, if a Romanian gangster wants gold, they know much easier ways to get it.
     
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  10. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Maybe not to actually do it, but to threaten it if certain conditions aren't met. "Release Joe Sixpack Gangster or the crown is ingots!" It's worth a pile but it's too famous to sell as it is, but as gold bars that problem goes away. Odds are the goverment will cave instead of taking the risk; gangsters aren't notorious for having soft hearts or appreciation for heritage.
     
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