ABBREVIATIONS AND NOMENCLATURE

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.

 

ISVA Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers

 

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