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Art detective finds missing gift from Oscar Wilde

By AFP
22 November 2019   |   10:43 am
A ring once given as a present by the famed Irish writer Oscar Wilde has been recovered. Dutch art detective Arthur Brand, dubbed the "Indiana Jones of the art world", found the item more than 15 years after it was stolen from Oxford University.

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