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Posted by neoglassic@peak.org on November 6, 2007, 12:16 pm
Please log in for more thread options > No, nothing about the pet whipping boy. I was reading a review of one
> of Alastair Duncan's book and one of the reviews wasn't a review at
> all, but a comment that Duncan caught some heat by selling a stolen
> Tiffany window. I was skeptical. Does anybody know the story?
>
> Michael
METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW YORK; Stained-Glass Expert Gets Prison
Sentence
Published: March 10, 2000
A renowned expert on Tiffany stained glass was sentenced yesterday to
27 months in federal prison for conspiring with a Queens grave robber
and an antiques dealer to pilfer rare stained-glass windows from
cemetery mausoleums and sell them overseas at a large profit.
The man, Alastair Duncan, 57, said in federal court in Manhattan
yesterday that both his life and his 25-year career had been ruined,
and he pleaded with Judge Thomas P. Griesa of United States District
Court not to send him to prison.
More than 190 friends and associates had written to Judge Griesa
supporting Mr. Duncan, who has denied knowing that a Tiffany stained-
glass window he helped sell for $220,000 had been stolen from a
cemetery. But the judge ordered Mr. Duncan to repay the cemetery that
amount.
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