VALUABLE TREASURE.
Armed Guards For Work Of Dutch Masters. EXHIBITION AT HOME. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, November 25. Armed men, well concealed in a specially constructed motor van, are leaving London to collect £5,000,000 T worth of pictures from public galleries and private collections in England and Scotland for an * exhibition of Dutch masters at Burrington House in January. The motor van is fitted with special springs and a padded case for each of 300 pictures. There will be armed guards, including local police, day and night during the exhibition.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1928, Page 7
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