Duplicates removal in Photos

Hi all,
I have a large iPhoto Database (180 GB) and have done the update to Photos. All fine, took a while but then discovered that from a certain date, 2010-12-31, I got 2 copies/duplicates from 1 picture each (in total 3).
This is probably a bug and if there is any clever solution other than manually go thru each copy - feedback much appreciated
Thanks everybody for your ideas..

Unfortunately at this time there are no tools within Photos to search for and remove duplicates and no suitable workarounds to the problem.
You might try this third party solution.

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