11.   If Holocaust survivors and German museums have anything in common in pursuing such claims, it is that American collectors and museums seldom ask serious questions about past ownership.

12.   Kay talks about American collectors who look for antique oak floors in England, never suspecting that much of the stock was first salvaged in the United States.

13.   Jordan added that the buyers were predominantly American collectors.

14.   Many dollhouses from famous American collectors are preserved in museums in New York, Chicago and other cities.

15.   Many of the paintings up for auction were donated more than a century ago by the American collector Thomas Jefferson Bryan.

16.   Most military vehicles in the hands of American collectors were sold directly to the public and never left the United States.

17.   Some American wine collectors are finding themselves forced to sell their Lafites and Moutons, even when they acquired them years ago at reasonable prices.

18.   The buyers were mostly American collectors.

19.   There was a flurry of rekindled interest in European art history when for the first time wealthy American collectors routinely paid outrageous sums to own works by specific artists.

20.   They were all from the collection of Stanley Seeger, an American collector living in Switzerland.