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Pictured: Archival pictures of Mannheimer Collection in situ.
A stunning collection of German porcelain that was found by the so-called Monuments Men before it could be destroyed by the Nazis has sold 76 years later for over £10m.
The hoard of Meissen antiques that was seized by the Third Reich during the Second World War was discovered in a salt mine in Austria in 1945.
It had been amassed years earlier by German-Jewish industrialist Dr Franz Oppenheimer and his wife Margarethe.
Pic: NoordHollandsArchief/Sotheby’s/BNPS
Pictured: Archival pictures of Mannheimer Collection in situ.
A stunning collection of German porcelain that was found by the so-called Monuments Men before it could be destroyed by the Nazis has sold 76 years later for over £10m.
The hoard of Meissen antiques that was seized by the Third Reich during the Second World War was discovered in a salt mine in Austria in 1945.
It had been amassed years earlier by German-Jewish industrialist Dr Franz Oppenheimer and his wife Margarethe.
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