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Culture minister defers export of mrs hutton rawlinson's 'very elegant mahogany bookcase' purchased from gillows of lancaster on 18 july 1772

Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge, has placed a temporary export bar on a very rare and interesting piece of English furniture. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the early Gillows bookcase in the United Kingdom.

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seen at 16:16, 28 August in Bank of England News - national.