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Vincent
Published date28 May 2022
Publication titleDaily Star (England)
The bungling caretaker won a £4k pay-out this week for unfair dismissal despite giving away the 460-year-old antique, worth £5million

Here KIM CARR reveals 10 valuable art accidents?

LOSE YOUR MARBLES: By not properly preserving The Elgin Marbles - one of ancient Greece's most important artefacts - The British Museum was said to have wrecked them. The 5th century sculptures were covered in brine from pollution. On a clean-up job 80 years ago, stone scrapers and nitric acid eroded 0.5 inches and irreplaceable detail.

DEAD STUPID: While on a visit to the Prittlewell Priory Museum in Southend, Essex, a couple put their child inside an 800-year-old sandstone coffin, which was on display behind a barrier. The sarcophagus broke apart. CROSSING A FINE LINE: Despite their best intentions to better the planet, Greenpeace protestors did more harm than good in 2014, right, damaging ancient lines of the Nazca Desert of Peru. Writing in big yellow letters: "Time for Change! The future is renewable", they later said sorry, but the government filed charges against them.

I GIVE YOU PROPS: Hollywood star Kurt Russell went full pelt smashing up a guitar on the set of The Hateful Eight, without realising he had an original 1800s instrument ?

in his hands, which was owned by the filmmakers. The plan had been to stop the scene and switch it out for a copy but the actor didn't get the memo. OH RATS! Graffiti artist Banksy's Parachuting Rat series in Melbourne, Australia, were well received by local authorities, who approve of street art. However one ill-informed worker, who thought it was gang related, did a clean-up job, and painted over the priceless creation by the Bristol-born mysterious creator. STROKE OF BAD LUCK: Gold crafted and...

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