ACPO Association of
Chief Police Officers
[1]
ACTs Active Crime Tracking
System an interactive search system run by Invaluable and its sister
company Trace.
ALR Art Loss Register.
Antique the description
[2]
of ‘what is an antique’ may depend on the particular object
in question. In the Richards v Curwen
[3]
were two revolvers were classed as an antique not being older
than 85 years old
[4]
. ‘…and the court did not accept that to be antiques
they needed to be 100 years old.’
[5]
Consumer is a person
or collection of people who have purchased portable second hand goods for their
pleasure and is a temporary holder. It does not refer to Collectors who trade
on a regular basis.
Cultural Property the
discussions tend to use this expression to describe an antiquity as opposed
to Fine Art.
Dealer is a person
or business that trades in goods within the ‘Trading Market’ either to resell
or to improve a collection for resale.
Flat art is used to
describe paintings, prints, lithographs, drawings and any other forms of pictures
that are not shaped or viewed as three-dimensional. The description includes
works by Van Gogh and other gesso or layered pictures. A term used by Mr J.G.Woracker
when discussing image matching with Dr Graham Hine of the ALR during 19987-88
before the ALR’s launch.
Fine Art has no real
boundaries
[6]
there is confusion amongst the trade, public and the government
to its true meaning.
IFAR The International
Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) is a not-for-profit educational and research
organization dedicated to integrity in the visual arts.
ITAP Illicit Trade Advisory Panel. The Ministerial
Advisory Panel on the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects was established in May
2000, under the chairmanship of Professor Norman Palmer, to advise how the UK
can prevent and prohibit the illicit trade in cultural objects.
Trading Market refers
to the activity relating to the sale or purchase of goods that are defined as
Artefacts, Art, Antiques or Collectables
ObjectID is a trademarked
name. A system of recording the minimum requirements for transferring information
relating to cultural property between interested parties.
RICS Royal Institute
of Charter Surveyors