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...money with them, German Jews were recently forbidden by new Nazi decrees to take even their household goods and movable possessions. They were ordered to pay on such goods as jewelry, furs and furniture, an export tax of 100%. A further decree barred German dealers from bidding on goods auctioned by non-Aryans, and provided that if a Jew, having failed to sell goods at auction, offers them for sale a second time but fails to find a private buyer, they should automatically be forfeited to the State. Why the Nazis went to this length was not apparent, since...
...ship was one he had bought for $900 at an auction six years ago. Extra fuel tanks he had installed forward of the pilot's seat, obscuring his vision so that to see where he was going he had to wiggle the ship, peer out the side windows. Expense of the trip had been $110.15-$110 for gas and oil, ten cents for chocolate bars and, for a water bottle he borrowed at Long Beach, a nickel deposit. That, of course, would be returned to him when he brought the bottle back...
...famed wine-colored rooms of Christie's (Christie, Manson & Woods), famed London auctioneers, the voice of Captain Sir Henry Floyd was heard last week. It lost none of its discreet fervor through much use. Standing tall and straight on the rostrum, Sir Henry was presiding at the auction sale of one of the richest art hoards of modern times: the collection of the late Banker Mortimer L. Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb). Banker Schiff, who died in 1931, had built a house on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for the proper housing and display of his treasures. Behind last week...
...Dorchester, England, last week, items from the Hardy family collection were put up for auction, including two bits of Nelsoniana. One sentimental antiquarian bid nine guineas (about $47) for the manuscript of the Trafalgar prayer. Hottest bidding, however, was over a wisp of hair, which the auctioneer swore had been cropped from Nelson's pate by his vivacious and tenacious mistress, Lady Emma Hamilton. The seadog's wisp was knocked down...
...painter. Before the artist died in 1919, Steelmaster Gangnat had accumulated no less than 150 paintings in the softly-modeled, peach-bloom style of Renoir's later years. After Maurice Gangnat's death in 1924, his son let all but 50 paintings go at an auction. The fineness of the 50 last week impressed the Pennsylvania Museum's severest critic, Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes of Marion, Pa., who himself owns the most magnificent Renoirs in the U. S. Setting foot within the museum for the first time since he began to picket it, (TIME...