71.   Was it sold to an unidentified private collector in America, as a German television network reported last month?

72.   When an exhibition includes loans from private collectors or other institutions, the lender may not want to be so forthcoming.

73.   While appreciation in works of art depends on fads and fashion, the private collector can have the most influence.

74.   While some private collectors may allow researchers access, others may seal off fossils from the public forever.

75.   Pinto said the thieves might be filling an order from a secretive private collector or perhaps they planned to make a ransom demand.

76.   Police have seized a cache of Pharaonic and Greco-Roman statues and ancient Islamic manuscripts believed to have been stolen by an Antiquities Authority guard for sale to private collectors.

77.   Others were sold to private collectors and dealers.

78.   Pinto said the thieves might be acting on commission of a private collector or perhaps they planned to make a ransom demand.

79.   Police said the gang apparently had hoped to find a private collector willing to pay big money to possess the works clandestinely.

80.   A RARE collection of Chinese books, including some written during the Qing dynasty, has been donated to the City Hall Library by a private collector.