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Canadians have six months to scrape up the cash to buy Lt.-Col. David Currie’s Victoria Cross, one of only 12 VCs awarded to Canadians fighting in Canadian units during the Second World War.
The Currie VC, the Commonwealth’s highest honour for bravery in combat, was sold to a British collector for $660,000 at a private auction in London last fall.
Last week, the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board ordered a six-month waiting period before it will agree to let the buyer take the medals out of Canada.
David Currie, grandson of Victoria Cross recipient Lt.-Col. David V. Currie, poses for a photo with his grandfather’s medals.
The Canadian War Museum bid unsuccessfully for the medal at the auction. The Currie family, meanwhile, has pleaded for the government to make a “last ditch stand” to buy the medal and keep it in Canada.
Lt.-Col. David Currie was born in Sutherland, Sask., and was awarded the VC for his role leading a small unit of Canadian infantry and tanks to cut off a vastly superior German force in the Falaise Pocket in the weeks after the D-Day invasion. It was the only Canadian VC awarded during the bloody Normandy campaign which raged during the summer of 1944.
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After the war, Currie was appointed sergeant of arms of the House of Commons and lived in Ottawa until his death in 1986. His widow sold the medals to a Canadian collector in 1989, who put them up for auction last year. Neither the names of the Canadian seller or the British buyer have been made public.
The export delay allows Canadians six months to make a “fair cash offer” to the British buyer, who bought the VC and other Currie memorabilia for $550,000 plus a $110,000 auction house fee. The export delay expires Aug. 5.
The deadline to submit the offer is July 7.
bcrawford@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/getBAC
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The Currie VC, the Commonwealth’s highest honour for bravery in combat, was sold to a British collector for $660,000 at a private auction in London last fall.
Last week, the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board ordered a six-month waiting period before it will agree to let the buyer take the medals out of Canada.
David Currie, grandson of Victoria Cross recipient Lt.-Col. David V. Currie, poses for a photo with his grandfather’s medals.
The Canadian War Museum bid unsuccessfully for the medal at the auction. The Currie family, meanwhile, has pleaded for the government to make a “last ditch stand” to buy the medal and keep it in Canada.
Lt.-Col. David Currie was born in Sutherland, Sask., and was awarded the VC for his role leading a small unit of Canadian infantry and tanks to cut off a vastly superior German force in the Falaise Pocket in the weeks after the D-Day invasion. It was the only Canadian VC awarded during the bloody Normandy campaign which raged during the summer of 1944.
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After the war, Currie was appointed sergeant of arms of the House of Commons and lived in Ottawa until his death in 1986. His widow sold the medals to a Canadian collector in 1989, who put them up for auction last year. Neither the names of the Canadian seller or the British buyer have been made public.
The export delay allows Canadians six months to make a “fair cash offer” to the British buyer, who bought the VC and other Currie memorabilia for $550,000 plus a $110,000 auction house fee. The export delay expires Aug. 5.
The deadline to submit the offer is July 7.
bcrawford@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/getBAC
查看原文...
