Sale of a rare Fang mask cleared by French court

A French elderly couple on has had its request to cancel the 4.2-million-euro sale of a rare African mask that they had let go for 150 euros thrown out, with the court calling their claim frivolous. The couple, in their eighties, sold the wooden mask in September 2021 as part of a number of antiquities including African artifacts they had kept in their secondary home in southern France and wanted to be rid of.The objects had belonged to an ancestor who was a governor in Africa, and were believed