Antiquities dealer who exposed British Museum thefts dies aged 61

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“Nothing so boring as modern diamond rings,” he told us with a smile. His focus was gems from ancient Greece and Rome, carved with intricate figures, sometimes images of the gods or portraits, which were worn as pendants in jewellery and used as sealstones in rings.

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