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Maryam Kara

Charity shop workers left ‘speechless’ as donated Bible sells for £56,000

The sale price of a Bible that was donated to a charity shop has left workers “speechless” after it achieved £56,000 at an auction.

The sale was a fortnight after the rare book, the first completed Bible in Chinese, came to be spotted by volunteers in a pile of donations in Oxfam’s Chelmsford bookshop.

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