{"id":671,"date":"2015-07-27T11:38:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T18:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2015-07-27T11:44:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T18:44:51","slug":"stolen-mahler-photo-offered-on-ebay-for-150000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Mahler photo offered on ebay for $150,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/randols\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/?p=671\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/?p=671\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div><p>A few weeks ago\u00a0I contacted Cliff Fraser and offered to resolve the issue of the <a href=\"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/?p=288\">stolen Mahler photo<\/a> by purchasing it for $20,000. \u00a0He countered by demanding $120,000 and I decided not to pursue it further. \u00a0There is still no reason to think the photo wasn&#8217;t stolen from our home in Brentwood or loaned somewhere by my grandmother and never returned after she died of cancer in 1967. \u00a0(Just this year the Edinburgh Festival returned a bunch of photos and a diagram for <em>Gurrelieder<\/em> that were loaned in 1961.)<\/p>\n<p>Now Cliff has decided to try to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/Gustav-Mahler-Dedicated-Portrait-to-Arnold-Schoenberg\/141724623279?_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042&amp;_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D29981%26meid%3D1dc227f51a2249cdb9ef11b5c75d6c61%26pid%3D100033%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D3%26sd%3D141724623279\" target=\"_blank\">sell the photo on ebay<\/a>. \u00a0It looks like he is being assisted by someone with the listing, because in previous correspondence he has been less than articulate. \u00a0The listing was <a href=\"http:\/\/slippedisc.com\/2015\/07\/for-sale-the-portrait-mahler-signed-for-schoenberg\/\" target=\"_blank\">picked up by Norman Lebrecht on Slipped Disc<\/a>, who then also reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/slippedisc.com\/2015\/07\/mahler-portrait-is-stolen\/\" target=\"_blank\">the photo appears to have been stolen<\/a>. \u00a0If no one purchases it, maybe Cliff will come to his senses and at least accept my generous offer of\u00a0a reasonable price for the return of the photo. \u00a0Unfortunately, to date he has been acting more like the original thief than simply the grandson who found the stolen photo buried in his grandmother&#8217;s boiler room.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/57.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-677\" src=\"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/57.jpg\" alt=\"$_57\" width=\"1191\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/57.jpg 1191w, https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/57-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/57-762x1024.jpg 762w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1191px) 100vw, 1191px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago\u00a0I contacted Cliff Fraser and offered to resolve the issue of the stolen Mahler photo by purchasing it for $20,000. \u00a0He countered by demanding $120,000 and I decided not to pursue it further. \u00a0There is still no &hellip; 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