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Art gallery thieves make a quick buck melting down rare bronze sculptures for scrap market

Frik Els | October 25, 2011 | 10:54 pm Base Metals Africa Europe Copper 

AP reports one of the four bronze sculptures that included a Jules Dalou, sculptor of the famous Triomphe de la République in Paris (pictured), stolen from the Johannesburg Art Gallery in South Africa since January, were probably melted down and...

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