What a story! The lesson I took from this story, is make sure I put my full name on a quilt label. But like the bank deposit slip had an acct number and the pathology report had a patient's name on, all these things can be traced back to the owner, the quilt should have had a quilters' name on the label.
I will no longer think it's vain to put my name on a quilt that I've worked on. Hopefully I would never lose a quilt like this one, but one never knows! Chris