How is it that no organization or person in the U.K. can scrape together £33,000 to keep this beautiful artifact at home? Is the Museum of Oxford a "mom and pop" endeavor with no financial resources? Why doesn't the responsible government ministry "just say no" to the export-license application? Who, specifically, is trying to remove this artifact from the U.K.; and who, specifically, is selling it? Where are the journalists?
Questions, questions! The buying and selling, not to mention looting, of museum-quality art and precious artifacts is an amusing pastime for those who live in the seemingly-untouchable parallel universe of privilege and wealth; but like any immoral and unethical pursuit of that class (e.g., initiating warfare) it can be stopped, if the citizenry would only care enough to demand its cessation.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road