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A picture taken on October 30, 2019 at the apartment of Arthur Brand in Amsterdam shows a close-up of the 18-carat golden friendship ring with an engraving, which is said to have belonged to Irish playwright Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). - A golden ring once given as a present by the famed Irish writer Oscar Wilde has been recovered by a Dutch "art detective" nearly 20 years after it was stolen from Britain's Oxford University. The friendship ring, a joint gift from Wilde to a fellow student in 1876, was taken during a burglary in 2002 at Magdalen College, where the legendary dandy studied. At the time it was valued at GBP 35,000 (40,650 euros, USD 45,000). The trinket's whereabouts remained a mystery for years and there were fears that the ring -- shaped like a belt and buckle and made from 18-carat gold -- had even been melted down. But Arthur Brand, a Dutchman dubbed the "Indiana Jones of the Art World" for recovering a series of high-profile stolen artworks, used his underworld connections to finally find it. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP) (Photo by JOHN THYS/AFP via Getty Images)
A picture taken on October 30, 2019 at the apartment of Arthur Brand in Amsterdam shows a close-up of the 18-carat golden friendship ring with an engraving, which is said to have belonged to Irish playwright Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). - A golden ring once given as a present by the famed Irish writer Oscar Wilde has been recovered by a Dutch "art detective" nearly 20 years after it was stolen from Britain's Oxford University. The friendship ring, a joint gift from Wilde to a fellow student in 1876, was taken during a burglary in 2002 at Magdalen College, where the legendary dandy studied. At the time it was valued at GBP 35,000 (40,650 euros, USD 45,000). The trinket's whereabouts remained a mystery for years and there were fears that the ring -- shaped like a belt and buckle and made from 18-carat gold -- had even been melted down. But Arthur Brand, a Dutchman dubbed the "Indiana Jones of the Art World" for recovering a series of high-profile stolen artworks, used his underworld connections to finally find it. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP) (Photo by JOHN THYS/AFP via Getty Images)
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