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Hi, i have a friend whose fossils have been stolen in his van.

He is a fossil seller : Jean Stéphane David.

If you see those, please, call the authorities and let me know it, i'll call the french authorities and i'll give the information to my friend or maybe, can you contact him directly : http://jsdfossiles.com/

Here are the photos of what was stolen :

 

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2 minutes ago, fifbrindacier said:

friend whose fossils have been stolen in his van.

No that is annoying . I will keep an eye on our favourite auction site. :(

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Very annoying, i know he's a good seller and i know his fossils are without doubt real ones, i know he also hunt when he has time enough. He is my supplier of trilobites, except one, i all bought them to him and i see him regularly.

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The one advantage here is that fossils tend to be unique items, the fossil collecting market is not excessively large, and so the thieves will find it a challenge to flip these through the usual online sales channels without being detected. It is somewhat similar to stealing a work of art. 

 

Fingers crossed that the thieves are caught, justice is served, and the seller is reunited with his stolen inventory. :) 

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I'll keep an eye out  on different sites  myself, I hope everything will resolve for good !

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That stinks! Does he have insurance on them?

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1 hour ago, UtahFossilHunter said:

That stinks! Does he have insurance on them?

Probably, he is a professional, but, nontheless, he'd prefer to find them back.

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How horrible! 

I'll keep an eye out on the net. 

Let's hope for a positive outcome.:fingerscrossed:

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Thieves stink! :angry:

 

As Kane mentioned above, they are unique pieces and so they will be difficult to sell on an internet site without detection.

 

Hope there turns out to be a happy ending to this story (but those are long odds).

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

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It might be a good idea to keep an eye open during fossil fairs in France like "Saintes Marie aux Mines 2019"

I'll try to check Belgian fossil fairs since this is not to far from France.

 

 

 

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He was recently in a fair at Angers and the police told him this might be from "little" thieves, but those pieces are uncommon and might go in a profesionnal trafickers grid.

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Hi,

 

Do you mean his fossils were stolen from Angers ? I have been involved for a long time in organizing this show that takes place in november.

I hope your supplier will recover all his fossils thanks to the watchful eye of all.
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I hope too, we discussed that matter with him and some other sellers last year at the fair of Pau and he said he crossed his finger for he didn't want this to happen to him.:angry:

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I'll keep an eye out in Tucson next week but doubt they would have made they're way there from France already.

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8 hours ago, HamptonsDoc said:

I'll keep an eye out in Tucson next week but doubt they would have made they're way there from France already.

It’s possible. It is arguably one of the biggest shows in the world afterall. The timing is also coincidental as well. Black market fossil dealers can move stuff quickly when they want. Hopefully they’re just sitting around in some thieves house until they try to sell them foolishly on our favorite auction site.

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There is always the possibility the theif is a thieving collector who saw them and wanted to add them to his collection. So he went fossil hunting at a very productive spot and stole them. It isn’t likely, but he has good taste in fossils.

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On ‎26‎/‎01‎/‎2019 at 4:20 AM, KimTexan said:

There is always the possibility the theif is a thieving collector who saw them and wanted to add them to his collection. So he went fossil hunting at a very productive spot and stole them. It isn’t likely, but he has good taste in fossils.

You can be right, and if so, it stole them yet identified so won't ask for help and Jean Stéphane won't see his fossils again.

 

A great thanks to all of you for your help, i cross fingers in the hope this mobilisation will work. :1-SlapHands_zpsbb015b76:

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Hi, i have good news, all the stolen fossils have been found except the jaw of Basilosaurus. The robbers were children who are known to do "little" larcenies. Like stealing peers in a car, cutting flowers in public properties, making bad jokes to people.

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So what became of the jaw? Were they able to sell it or did they smash it trying to get the teeth out to make necklaces or something?

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14 minutes ago, caldigger said:

So what became of the jaw? Were they able to sell it or did they smash it trying to get the teeth out to make necklaces or something?

We don't know, the youngs are only suspects because there's no direct proof against them, so the judge didn't give the autorisation for a perquisition. We think it's in one's room.

When stolen the fossils were in a case and i understood a woman found the case opened under a bus Shelter, as she knew the seller, she told him she had found it and gave him it back.

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