One quick flash, and a thick cardboard tube was destroyed.

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Prosecutor John Arnold said Mr Istavrioglou took the painting out of its frame, rolled it up in a cardboard tube and posted it back to New York after security images of the theft were distributed around the world.

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It was intercepted in a cardboard shipping tube en route to the same gallery.

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