Actually, it was only side 1, but I still hold out hope that it might pop up one day, like Black Gold and the Fillmore East tapes did. Also, a lot of Jimi’s gear was looted after he died.
I also remember hearing about Zack Wyld’s original bullseye Les Paul was stolen years ago, and I don’t know if it was ever recovered.
I thought the Glenn Miller disappearance had been long solved? His plane flew into a bomb jettisoning area off the coast of England and got hit by jettisoned ordnance from an RAF bomber that had aborted its mission. One of the crew (Flight Navigator? Radio Operator?) noted it in their flight log, but no-one made the connection between “Small, unidentified plane crashing off the coast of England in a bomb jettisoning zone in bad weather” and “Hey, no-one’s seen Glenn Miller for a while. Wasn’t he flying to France in a small plane in bad weather?” until much, much later. And Miller’s disappearance was covered up at the time to prevent damage to Morale (for obvious reasons), and by the time it stopped being A Matter Of Utmost Importance the myths etc had started and/or been well and truly established.
On the subject of missing aircraft and Aviators, though: Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and the plane he was flying in. Somewhere off the coast of Burma is about all anyone’s managed to work out.
Former FBI agent Robert Wittman, who specialized in stolen art and antiquities undercover work for over twenty years, was recently profiled on NPR’s Fresh Air. He said about 90% of all art theft are the smaller, valuable, but not unique and priceless items that thieves can unload at auctions, private sales, even flea markets. The other 10%, the really big ticket big publicity items, can’t be sold and usually aren’t displayed by a collector. They have been, however, held in ‘reserve’ by criminals, so to speak. If they get arrested for something else, it’s a bargaining chip.
Glenn Miller reminds me: the body of actor Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes from Gone With the Wind/Henry Higgins from Pygmalion) was never recovered during WW2 either.
Some notebooks of da Vinci
Many “conversation” books of Beethoven
Ancient Greek stuff, Rennaissane musical works by masters
And my favorite, the letters of Nora Joyce in response to her hubby’s “ten dirty letters,” some of which, according to James, were smearing and getting too crusty to read.
Well, yeah, along with a million or so other servicemen killed in WWII, plus probably 10-20 million civilians. So that’s hardly a unique missing object.
Thanks-I wonder if the thief who stole the one from John’s Grill has sold it?
Probably something pretty easy to fence-but on the other hand, how would you authenticate it?
The SYFY Channel has a program called"Hollywood Treasure". They auction artifacts from Hollywood and TV. They auctioned Hamilton’s wicked witch hat for nearly 200,000 bucks. They sold the Kato hat of Bruce Lee for almost 25 thou. They have to authenticate everything they auction.
