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Apr. 05, 2012 -300, 000 worth of Holbein Cartoons Hidden Behind Other Priceless Work Can Never Be. Exposed: A professor of medicine 44-year-old Bertram Cohen has revealed a total of 16 cartoons valued at around300, 000 which are hidden behind the layers of another priceless work - that of Henry VIII which hangs in the Royal College of surgeons. The professor who is head of the Dental Research Dept of the college made the discoery when he made on X--Ray of the painting with his dental machine. Dr. Stephen Rees Jones, one of the greatest experts on restoration of old mastered has said that it would be impossible to remove the Holbein cartoons without destroying his other work. Photo shows: The Henry VIIII painting with a close up of Holbein's original cartoon which can never be exposed underneath

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