These notes were first seized by Italian authorities from his home in Paris and used in a trial brought against him when he was already in his eighties, in a campaign that saw the Euphronios krater sent to Italy and an overwhelming change in the way in which museums, private collectors and dealers in ancient art conduct business.
In later years, Bob started recording his amazing career on paper. The Republic of Italy immediately claimed that it had been illegally excavated, but for thirty years was unsuccessful. Legendary scholar and foremost dealer in ancient art in the second half of the twentieth century, Bob Hecht was catapulted to international fame in 1972 when he sold one of the very greatest of all Greek vases, a large vessel for mixing wine and water at the symposium, signed by the painter Euphronios and the potter Euxitheos to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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