News and updates from around the arts and auction community:
- Geppi’s Entertainment Museum, or ‘GEM,’ as it’s better known, is celebrating its 10th anniversary today. Packed with pop culture treasures, it’s the coolest place in Baltimore. [Read more from Scoop]
- A Paris court has convicted and sentenced auctioneers and auction house workers who perpetrated a major art-theft scam. The stolen loot was stored in containers that weighed an estimated 250 metric tons. [Read more from Associated Press]
- A woman in England made a 7500% profit on a piece she found in an antique shop. Can you guess what her underpriced discovery might have been? [Read more from Britain’s Mirror]
- In an attempt to stop the turnover of stolen goods in New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie has signed into law a bill that tracks jewelry, precious metals and other valuables offered sold through pawn shops, antique dealers and scrapyards. [Read more from NJ.com]
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