He acknowledged that most of the objects had no documented ownership history, but also said that there was no evidence of an illicit excavation.
The Burghardt family (of Dutch origin) was present in the vicinity of Great Barrington, Massachusetts in colonial times, with documented ownership of land in the area from the 1740s.
Instead of buying the krater from a reputable dealer with a documented ownership history, he says he purchased it in 1971 from an Italian dealer, Giacomo Medici, who was convicted last year of trafficking in looted art.
This collection of 46 documents consists of manuscript bills of sale, receipts, estate appraisals, deeds of gift, manumission statements, promissory notes, and other papers documenting slave ownership and the slave trade in the United States between 1770 and 1863.
Document showing ownership of a joint bank account or joint credit card account.
On Aug. 11, the two Connecticut collectors and the state of North Carolina presented arguments to a federal judge in Elizabeth City who will determine the document's ownership.
"If investors lose confidence in the ability of banks to document their ownership of mortgages, the financial industry could suffer staggering losses," the panel's chairman, Senator Edward E. Kaufman, Democrat of Delaware, told Ms. Caldwell.
The university argues that Fawcett owned both portraits, citing a document of ownership the actress signed when the two prints were exhibited at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
