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Hunt is on for statue of Hans Christian Andersen missing in Sydney

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20041019
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AP Worldstream
10-19-2004
Dateline: SYDNEY, Australia
Once upon a time, a long time ago, a statue of Danish children's author Hans Christian Andersen disappeared.

Now the hunt is on to find the missing bronze in time for the 200th anniversary of the writer's birth on April 2 next year.

Royal Danish Consul General in Sydney Jorgen Mollegard Kristensen on Tuesday offered a holiday to Denmark for the person who finds the statue, which disappeared from a Sydney park in 1965.

He said the bronze bust, which was reported to be about two meters (six feet) high and was created by Danish sculptor Wendy ...

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