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New hope for Wedgwood

Art Fund hints at legal move that could save the collection
Patrick Steel
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The chairman of the Art Fund, David Verey, has hinted that the organisation may be close to finding a way to stop the Wedgwood collection being sold to meet debts to the Pension Protection Fund.

The Art Fund declined to make further comment, but Verey wrote in Art Quarterly: “It will involve a legal procedure which, although it may take some months, could recover for the Pension Protection Fund a sum greater than the value of the collection.

“With the need to sell thus removed, the public purse would be spared the responsibility of saving an extraordinary part of Britain’s heritage, which should have never been put in danger in the first place.”



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