The trade in New World antiquities today is as robust as it has ever been, thanks in part to—what until recently—had been a healthy global […]

The Antiquities Trade- and the Responsible Collector
By
Rob Morgan

By MARK BOWES
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER

The artillery shell that exploded Monday and killed a Civil War relics dealer outside his Chesterfield County home was a cannonball about 8 to 10 inches in diameter, a federal official said yesterday.

The “Antiquities Act of 1906” has become a model for other nations who are trying to protect their cultural heritage-
it states: American Antiquities Act of 1906
16 USC 431-433