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The Berlin Wall
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SECTIONS of the Berlin Wall will be auctioned off in March in the run-up to the 30th anniversary of its fall in the autumn.
The six complete sections are expected to fetch up to £18,000 in total when they go under the hammer in two lots at Summers Place Auctions in Billingshurst, West Sussex.
They feature messages painted by the German artist and environmental activist Ben Wagin in 1990 after visitors chipped off the original graffiti, the auction house said.
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