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Chess piece bought for £5 and kept in a drawer for 50 years is missing treasure worth £1m (www.telegraph.co.uk)

A medieval chess piece missing for almost 200 years could fetch £1 million at auction after a family discovered the object they kept in a drawer is one of the long-lost Lewis Chessmen.

 

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