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Barry,

Here are some simple steps I used in the past.
1. If the seller has an Ebay ID and made only one single sale and cashed the 
money, then it can be VERY easily tracked down.
2. eBay works with law
 enforcement units.
3. Email Ebay dedicated Fraud Investigations Team or call Ebay.. Give only the 
seller's Ebay ID and the story you think is pertinent. 
4. Ebay works with FBI. Let them finish the job.
5. You can obtain personal data of a seller/buyer from Ebay. It may not be 
complete but enough to locate the State and maybe city. This is enough to send 
a letter to the State Attorney General and the local police unit of the city.
6, FBI has also a direct online database for complaints (it may not be useful 
if you don't have full information)  

Best regards
sorin damian


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From: D Sloan <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [MapHist] Map theft: update
To: "'Julie Sweetkind-Singer'" <[email protected]>, "'Discussion group for 
map history'" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, April 5, 2010, 12:30 PM

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Barry, and all,

I'm interested to know more about this as well and can publicize what you know 
on the Maps-L and WAML email lists in order to get librarians looking at their 
collections more closely.

FYI for the group, the Western Association of Map Librarians have taken control 
of the maps stolen by James Brubaker from libraries in (mainly) Pacific 
Northwest.  Boxes of maps were delivered to Jon Jablonski, now Head of the Map 
and Imagery Library at UC Santa Barbara and previously the map librarian at the 
University of Oregon, from the FBI.  Jon and a group of WAML librarians have 
agreed to take on the task of returning the stolen maps to their rightful 
owners in as many instances as possible.

Best,

Julie

Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Assistant Director of Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data & Services
Acting Head Librarian
Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections
Stanford University
397 Panama Mall; MC 2211
Stanford, CA 94305
(650)725-1102

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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 11:10:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Barry L. Ruderman" <[email protected]>
Subject: [MapHist] Map Thefts In US Libraries
To: maphist discussion grou <[email protected]>
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Is there anyone actively working on trying to stop an active US map thief who 
is selling on ebay?

I've reported my suspicions with respect to this person on two different 
occasions, with no follow ups.  I note that he has become much bolder and is 
now going after non-government serials and turning up with increasing early and 
rare material.

Its fairly clear that he's stolen over 10,000 maps from American institutional 
collections.  Is there anyone interested in his activities?

Barry Ruderman
Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.
7463 Girard Avenue  
La Jolla, CA  92037  (USA)
[email protected]
www.RareMaps.com
(858) 551-8500

Member:  Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
         International League of Antiquarian Booksellers

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