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Fairytale theft

Wednesday 22 July 1992 23:02 BST
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ODENSE, Denmark (Reuter) - Thieves broke into the Hans Christian Andersen Museum and stole artefacts and manuscripts by the 19th-century author, worth about pounds 350,000. The stolen items included original manuscripts of Andersen's fairy tales, including The Little Mermaid and The Emperor's New Clothes, and albums of Andersen drawings.

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