Two of the Gordon McLendon "gifts" of Etruscan amber appear in The J. Paul Getty Museum: Handbook of the Antiquities Collection (2010), pp. 140-41. A third, from an unstated source, also features. The amber kore, so the catalogue helpfully tells us, "was probably designed as a grave-gift".
Perhaps it was removed by illicit means from an Etruscan tomb.
Will the Getty be getting in touch with the Italian authorities?

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