GREAT ART THEFTS.
Received February 14, 8.17 a.m. LONDON, February 13. The house of Mr Charles Wertheim, in Park Lane, was entered by burglars, and pictures and articles of vertu valued at £50,000 were stolen, including the Gainsborough picture "Nancy Parsons" and Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait of Mrs Charles York, valued at £20,000, which were unskilfully cut from their frames with a carving knife.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8359, 15 February 1907, Page 5
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64GREAT ART THEFTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8359, 15 February 1907, Page 5
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