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...European auctioneers are hardened to the sad relics of royalty, but not once in a decade does one preside at an occasion so splendidly sentimental as that which drew a swank crowd of Londoners last week to Sotheby's auction rooms in Bond Street. Cherished by four generations of the House of Bourbon, fought over by the three ghostly old sisters of the late Don Jaime, Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, a famed diamond necklace was finally up for sale by the two sisters who have clung to it since 1931: 68-year-old Blanche de Castille, Archduchess...
Dropping the sunny mask displayed to its paying guests in winter, the City of Miami last week got down to the unpleasant business of collecting unpaid taxes. It was the duty of Tax Collector J. O. Davis to auction off delinquent lots-"or such part as is necessary"-to satisfy the city's claims. Miami's business recovery was reflected in this year's higher tax rolls ($2,900,000, compared to $2,300,000 last year) and in higher collections (89% as against 85½%). It was also reflected in remarkably eager bidding at the annual...
...power to Wildwood, hard or soft; to her boardwalk, her auction shops', her dance halls, her shooting galleries and Bingo games. A seaside colony of 15,000, this summer Wildwood, according to her Chamber of Commerce, expects 175,000 residents, 15% more than last year...
...entertain the dignitaries of her Church at "Inisfada." On sale last week were the beds they slept in, the antique crucifixes before which they prayed, the scenic tapestries which undoubtedly inspired them to homely homiletics. Some of the most important of these tapestries figured in the auction's largest sale-$43,000 each for two 11-by-15-ft. genre scenes, woven circa 1500, of country life at the Château d'Effiat in Auvergne. These Tournai Gothic tapestries went to a New York dealer. For $32,000, the same dealer carried off a rare 16th Century...
Place of the Manhattan meeting was the Manufacturers Trust Co. offices at Broad & Beaver Streets where old Mr. Ball made his headquarters in September 1935 when he bought into Alleghany Corp. at Wall Street's most spectacular auction. Passed to Mr. Ball last week was a check for $3,000,000 made out to the philanthropic George & Frances Ball Foundation and signed by Allan Price Kirby, son of one of the founders of F. W. Woolworth Co. and the third partner in the deal. Another $1,000,000 came from Messrs. Young & Kolbe. Rest of the sale price...