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Museums inherit riches
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A TREASURE trove of valuable artefacts has been shared among
Scotland's museums and galleries.
The private collection of paintings, medieval books, Scottish
silver and Roman antiquities has been accepted by the government in
lieu of inheritance tax.
The allocations include an oil painting by the English romantic
painter and engraver George Stubbs and The Birth of Venus, a painting
by Edward McEwan Baird, whose ...
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