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Posted by SarahN
on June 18, 2012, 9:22 pm, in reply to "Re: Lost tiara of Duchess of Argyll returned to owner after 6 years "
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Yes, it's one thing to lose a phone or an earring, but a tiara - !!
I sure as heck hope they are "rethinking their procedures".
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: I would suggest that very few tiaras are
: lost at the airport, and that a few simple
: inquiries would have ascertained the owner.
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: Given that, the airport is in grave
: dereliction of even the most basic duty to
: locate the owner of what would obviously
: have been a valuable item, not the sort of
: thing to go unnoticed by its owner.
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: Amazing, how carlessly they handle their
: customer's luggage!
: Here is another article about it. They have
: another pic of the Duchess, with another
: tiara.
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: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160926/Airport-finds-Duchesss-100-000-jewellery--sells-fraction-value-didnt-tell-police.html#ixzz1yAKXe9HQ
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: Airport sells off Duchess's lost diamond
: tiara
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: The Duchess of Argyll, who lost five pieces
: of jewellery including a diamond tiara at
: Glasgow Airport, spotted one of them in an
: auction catalogue after BAA sold it off, it
: was reported.
:
: The Duchess lost a Victorian headpiece and a
: Cartier brooch along with three other pieces
: worth a total of £100,000 in 2006. The items
: went missing as she returned to Clan
: Campbell's ancestral home, Inveraray Castle.
:
: Despite reporting the loss to the police and
: informing the Art Loss Register (ALR), they
: could not be traced until the Duchess, 68,
: saw her missing brooch in a catalogue for
: Scottish auction house Lyon and Turnbull,
: the Independent reported.
:
: After the ALR investigated, it emerged the
: airport's owner, BAA, had found the
: jewellery just months after it went missing
: and sold it to a diamond merchant for less
: than £5,000. The proceeds were given to
: charity.
:
: Christopher Marinello, ALR lawyer, said:
: "Apparently, the airport found the
: jewels or they were turned in to 'lost and
: found' by someone.
:
: "The question remains: what did they do
: to help find the owner? They didn't call the
: police even though the airport police had a
: record of the theft. They didn't call ALR.
: The only thing they did was sell them."
:
: BAA has reportedly offered to reimburse the
: trader to have the tiara, brooch and a pearl
: necklace returned but an emerald ring and
: pearl earrings are still missing.
:
: "I'm absolutely amazed. I thought that
: after six years I'd lost them forever,"
: the Duchess said. "The tiara was a
: Victorian family one and the necklace was
: given to me for my 21st birthday. So
: everything was very special."
:
: A BAA spokesman said the authority would be
: reviewing its procedures.
:
: Gavin Strang, L&T director, said he was
: "delighted" that the jewellery was
: being returned to its "rightful
: owner".
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: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9338449/Airport-sells-off-Duchesss-lost-diamond-tiara.html
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