Saturday, 5 August 2006

Icon in dustbin!

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The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg may have recovered one of its 220 pilfered items: a wooden icon entitled The Assembly of All Saints. A tip-off led police to it in a dustbin! Art and jewellery experts will examine the icon to make sure it is one of the stolen items.

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