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Export ban extended on photos that inspired Lewis Carroll's classic

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20020127
Author:THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer

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Dateline: LONDON A temporary export ban on a set of rare photographs of the little girl who inspired Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" fantasy has been extended, an official said Sunday, delaying their purchase by an American collector.

The original photos of young Alice Liddell, taken by the children' s author himself, were sold to the unidentified collector from the United States at a Sotheby's auction in London in June 2001.

The collector paid more than 2 million pounds (dlrs 2.8 million) for the photographs, letters and manuscripts that were all once ...

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