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The successful bidder was Dr Walter Leo Hildburgh, V&amp;A patron and donor, and he bequeathed it to the Museum on his death in 1955.\nIn the 1980s, the Spanish historian José Navarro Talegón identified the monstrance (then on display in the V&amp;A's Church Plate galleries) as the item stolen in 1890; in 1999 the V&amp;A received a formal letter about the theft from the Mayor of Toro, and delegates representing the Bishop of Zamora visited the Museum in 2004 to petition for its return. The V&amp;A corroborated José Navarro Talegón’s findings and confirmed that the monstrance in the museum’s collection is the one that was stolen from the Spanish church in 1890. However, the monstrance falls under the provisions of the 1983 National Heritage Act, since Hildburgh had acquired the piece in good faith at auction and had passed legal ownership to the Museum on his death. The V&amp;A therefore retains legal title to the object. 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