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death mask.
A plaster cast dated 1616, purporting to be Shakespeare's death mask, was brought to London from Germany in 1849: known as the Kesselstadt death mask (after a former owner), it attracted widespread interest over the next three decades, but now languishes in obscurity in a museum in Darmstadt. Claims for its authenticity are revived from time to time but have not achieved general acceptance.

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