FOUND AND LOST
PAINTING BY RAPHAEL.
DESTROYED IN FIRE.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, November 20. Two years ago Sir Robert Thomas, an ex-M.'P., passing a second-hand picture show.in London, was struck by the expression of a child’s face in a dilapidated picture, and bought the picture for £25. 'He had it cleaned. A few days later the seller tried to buy it back for £6O. Sir Robert Thomas refused to sell. He had the picture examined by experts, who reported that it was Raphael’s Madonna Del Pozzo, worth between £120,000 and £60,000. Last night the picture was destroyed in a fire, which destroyed practically the whole contents of Sir Robert Thomas’s residence at Holyhead.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11683, 22 November 1923, Page 6
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116FOUND AND LOST New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11683, 22 November 1923, Page 6
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