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Article: Stolen Eric Gill mural found in back of a van
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 14, 1999
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A MURAL created by one of Britain's finest sculptors and valued at
pounds 1.5m has been found in the back of a van in West Yorkshire, 11
months after its bizarre theft.
Estimated weight of the Eric Gill relief is six tonnes, which may
say something for the efforts of the thieves who spirited it out of a
storage cupboard at the Midland Hotel in Morecambe, Lancashire.
Surveillance officers from the National Crime Squad, which specialise
in tackling organised crime, have now seized it in Pontefract, West
Yorkshire.
The Gill piece, Odysseus welcomed from the sea by Nausica, has
been taken back to Lancashire where, by a previous court order, it
must be restored to the walls of the Midland. The ...
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