Showing posts with label thefts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thefts. Show all posts

July 11, 2012

Austria, 1890?

The seminal textbook of criminalistics by Hanns Groß (1893) records an odd and rather stupid (or drug-induced desperate?) variety of "scrap" Platinum theft, perhaps dating from the Platinum peak?

Citation: Manuel pratique d'instruction judiciaire à l'usage des procureurs..., Vol. 2 ("Sad Cases" Ch. 22, p.475) Hanns Gross, Gabriel Bourcart, Wintzweiller

July 24, 2010

USA, 1920/1: Platinum Thefts


1921: Summary of The Problem: 'the inside job' !



Peak Price and Thefts great and small


France, c. 1920: