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[[newspaper clipping]] ws Print" The New York © 1955, by The New York Times Company 81. | Entered as Second-Class Matter, Post Office New York, N. Y. | NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1955 8 Figurines Stolen at Museum Here [[image: Black and white photo of a panther statue]] [[image caption]] PANTHER Silver | Height 1 1/2";Length 2 1/4" Persian | Collection: The Art Museum, Seleucid Period (3rd-2nd century B.C) | Princeton University (Descriptive matter from exhibition catalogue) [[/image caption]] [[3 columns]] Rare Silver Objects Taken From Glass Cases in Brooklyn By MURRAY SCHUMACH Eight tiny silver statuettes were stolen Saturday from showcases in the Brooklyn Museum in one of the most daring museum thefts of recent years. Among the pieces stolen during visiting hours was a carving of a panther more than 2,000 years old. Other figurines that may have been pocked or dropped in a handbag were created between 250 and 1,000 years ago. Though the value of the artworks was admittedly high, responsible officials refused to give any estimate. They simple called them "irreplaceable." The stolen sculpture was among thirty pieces on loan from some of the nation's leading museums for an exhibition called "Sculpture in Silver From Islands in Time." While the crime was being committed dozens of persons must have walked within sight of the Print Room, in which the display was located. The room is on the second floor of the museum at Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue. The theft was discovered at 4:30 P. M. Saturday. But the owner museums were not notified until yesterday morning, when they received telegrams from the Brooklyn Museum. And the police were kept in the dark about the crime until yesterday at 2:30 P. M. The explanation for the delay offered by the museum director Edgar C. Schenck was this: "Rather than have all the museums involved read it in the papers, we felt it was better policy to think it through ourselves rather carefully." The nettled police, after some careful thinking themselves, announced last night that today they would start a thorough interrogation of museum employes [[employees]] and begin a careful check on the city's pawn shops, antique and curio stores and art galleries. Among the owners of the vanished sculpture were the Boston Museum of Art, the Seattle Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Walters Art Gal- Continued on Page 21, Column 2 [[right margin]] [[partial headline]] PERSON IS IN EXI PLANE T TO