Hidden out of sight for decades, Mary Tyler Moore’s piece of television history seeks a permanent home.

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By Louis Lucero II

Hollywood is filled with small-time crooks: stars who boast on red carpets and late-night talk shows about swiping mementos from set. Bryan Cranston made off with Walter White’s pork pie hat from “Breaking Bad”; Ariana Grande lifted a pair of prosthetic ears from “Wicked.”