Victory.

[Christophe]

Um, sorry if we created a search for Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster, but we didn't or don't have any secret information. When we wrote "private hands", we meant not locked up in a museum. We in no way were inferring the monarch "hocked" one of his baubles.

If anyone cares, I have seen the Victory at the Eisenhower museum and we actually handled Zhukov's at the Central Armed forces museum back in '98.

Hi Paul,

Thank you for taking the time to answer and give us clues.

Maybe my poor english made me misunderstood what you wrote in your book, but I did not understand "your" sentence "being in private hands" as "being still owned by the awardee"... hence my question.
I therefore understood it as being now in private hands... following an auction, a transaction, a sale...

So, as now you confirm you simply meant "still owned by Michael I" instead of being "locked up in a museum", my question has no more meaning. :D And what Michael I says confirm it.

But, interesting in all cases, as the rumour goes spreading and spanning : it now involves the Rockefeller family ;) ...

Thanks again Paul.

Cheers.

Ch.