THE CLAIM DATABASE

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REGISTERING YOUR CLAIM

International Claim offers an intelligent solution for cataloguing lost, stolen and at-risk objects and related cultural property, and alerts you to any matches when they occur.

When a work of art, classic car, or fine watch is stolen, looted, missing, or subject to any kind of title dispute, we recommend recording your claim on international databases. This procedure serves to register your claim to an object and makes it clear to the market that they need to recognize or resolve your title claim before the object can be bought or sold in the marketplace.

The Claim Database is checked by auction houses, dealers, collectors, insurers, and lawyers as part of their due diligence procedures when buying or selling art, classic car, and fine watches. When a match is made with an object listed on the database, our partner company Art Recovery International is often contacted to recover the object for the theft victim or resolve the title dispute between the possessor and claimant. What is unique about the Claim Database is that there is no obligation to contact ARI once an object has been located. Registrants are free to use their own lawyers, police officers, and experts to resolve the title claim. We are confident in our reputation and successes over the years and offer our services to those in need of our professional assistance.