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Elderly pair sold mask in 2021 for €150 before it was sold to unidentified buyer for €4.2m
An elderly French couple who sold an “extremely rare” African mask for €150 only to discover it was worth millions of euros have had a request to cancel the artefact’s sale thrown out in court.
The couple, in their 80s, sold the wooden mask in September 2021 to a secondhand goods dealer as part of a number of antiquities including African artefacts they had kept in their secondary home in southern France.
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