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Gift Works Of Art

Volume 478: debated on Tuesday 25 July 1950

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64.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will make a further statement about restrictions on the despatch of works of art as gifts to persons abroad.

I have given instructions that requests by artists to send their own works as gifts to relatives or friends, up to reasonable figures of value, are to be treated sympathetically.