The bronze death mask of Stalin go under the hammer in the UK

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A bronze death mask of Stalin go under the hammer in the UK

MOSCOW, January 23 - RIA Novosti. The bronze death mask of Joseph Stalin will be put up for auction on Tuesday , January 24, at an auction in the town of Ludlow in western England, wrote on Monday, the newspaper Daily Mail.

Experts auction house Mullock's estimated lot, which is owned by a private collector , at 3-5 thousand pounds sterling (5-8 thousand dollars). In addition to the masks in bronze casts of the lot are the hands of the Soviet leader .

According to the expert and historian Richard Westwood auction house , Brooks (Richard Westwood-Brooks), now the West is only two bronze mask of the nine existing, copied from the original, plaster , Stalin's death mask .

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