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...intimates though she was always extremely generous to charities. Last February she died, leaving ample bequests to her brothers & sisters and a dozen institutions, and the pick of her father's armor collection to the Metropolitan Museum. To settle the residue of the estate, one auction of furniture and household effects was held at Elmhurst last spring. There was still enough left to keep auctioneers busy for six days last week. All Miss Giulia's jewelry was sold with the rest. Besides her famed four-strand pearl necklace and her 25-carat Ceylon sapphire there...
Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes showed a copy of his six-volume Iconography of Manhattan Island, a most elaborately illustrated history of New York that usually brings from $1,000 to $1,500 at auction and is known all over the world...
...Adeline. . . . Kern had a superstition that shows whose name started with the letter S went better. At least they earned him enough to keep a house boat off Palm Beach, to indulge his penchant for collecting (and reading) rare manuscripts and first editions, so many valuable ones that at auction three years ago they brought...
Jovial Hotelman Sam Shaw of Manhattan put up another $25 in prize money last week and the Society of Fakirs was reborn out of the Art Students' League, with an exhibition, auction and dance. The original Fakirs, founded 40 years ago, was a convivial society of League students who wanted to raise money to give scholarships during the summer to deserving fellow members. They did this with an art exhibition of "fakes"; parodies of well known pictures, generally those exhibited in the National Academy, and a costume ball...
...with a huge leisurely stride. He was a seven-year-old in the U. S., a six-year-old in Australia.* He was the son of Night-raid, out of Entreaty. When Phar Lap was shipped from England to Australia in 1927, he was sold at auction for $800. In 51 starts in the next four years he won 37 races, finished second thrice. Australians considered him the greatest racehorse in the world. Last winter with five attendants and enough New Zealand oats to last three months, Phar Lap crossed the Pacific for American conquests. His easy victory at Agua...