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Dickens, is at risk of being exported from the United Kingdom unless a buyer can be found to match the asking price of 67,600 pounds.British
Minister for Arts, Heritage and Tourism, Michael Ellis, has placed a temporary export ban on the William IV mahogany table for the time
being, a statement on the government's website said.Mr Ellis expects that this would provide an opportunity to keep the table last
Devonshire Terrace and then in his offices on Wellington Street where he published "Household Words" and "All the Year Round".Finally it
remained with him at his library at Gad's Hill Place in Higham, Kent, till he passed away in 1870.Experts believe that the table was
bequeathed to Dickens' eldest son Charley, before it was acquired by his younger brother Sir Henry Fielding Dickens at the sale of Gad's
have contained the keys to Dickens' famous wine cellar."As one of Britain's most famous novelists, it is only right for there to be great
expectations on us to protect Dickens'' study table for the benefit of the nation," Mr Ellis said on Friday, adding that it is "another
significant item related to one of Britain's cultural icons"."Its associations are of considerable interest to lovers of Dickens' novels
