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| | Scoop: Add NYT To Bob Hecht Antiquities Ring Organigram? |
 | | Hecht's Atlantis Antiquities financier, collector Jonathan Rosen, fancied the carved seals and amulets. |
 | | One, a Mesopotamian lapis lazuli amulet 2,800 BC-2,370 BC, bore the inscription: "Rimush, King of Kish" [est. |
 | | Unfortunately, I have no notes in my catalogues about the bidding by Hecht's pal Fuat Uzulmez, who journalists Ozgen Acar and Melik Kaylan describe in Connoisseur magazine ("The Turkish Connection", Oct. 1990) as the handsome "top lieutenant" in Munich's Turkish antiquities mafia and who Hecht's daughter knew as "Uncle Fuat". |
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