Self-proclaimed art detective Arthur Brand Art newspaper Report Thursday.
The 25 objects recovered include documents listed in UNESCO’s memory for the world registers. The documents are related to the Dutch East India Company and include a report of the company’s first meeting in 1602, which details the Aurangzeb Emperor who visited Mughal India in 1700, and the ship logs of the 17th-century Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter.
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According to Brand, the works were discovered after a person cleared the sick loft and found the box. After showing it to a former university history professor, the professor urged the person to contact Brand.
The brand is well known in the field, including a series of high-profile recovery, including Christian relics known as the “Christian Blood” in 2022, as well as paintings by Van Gogh, Picasso and others in 2023.
“They sent me some photos and I immediately saw that it was a treasure,” Brand told Art newspaper.
Brand is on the condition that he will contact the Dutch police and attempt to return it to its proper owners National Archives. As the brand told Art newspaperThe National Archives didn’t even know that these objects were stolen.
In NL timeThe agency said it knew some of the files were lost, but confirmed that it was not aware that they were stolen.
“We know some of them are missing, but this may be for a variety of reasons,” a spokesperson said. “We manage more than 145 kilometers of archives, more than 15 million photos, and 300,000 maps and drawings. With such numbers, it is impossible to fully list all files. ”
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