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...story of bankrupt Lustron Corp. neared its end last week, as far as RFC was concerned. It took possession of Lustron's machinery, equipment, patents and trade name, bought at public auction the week before for $6,000,000. (RFC already owned the plant.) By selling the assets off, RFC thought it might get back a little of the $37.5 million it had poured into Lustron. But at week's end Lustron creditors started a fight to get a cut of the assets. It looked as if the squabble over Lustron's bones might drag...
...Rothschilds bought them in 1853. Duveen Bros., the London art dealers, got hold of them in 1897 and offered them to the Swiss National Museum for $1,250 apiece. While the Swiss deliberated, the elder J. P. Morgan snapped them up. In 1942, Honegger bought them at an auction of part of the Morgan Collection, had them fitted into window frames in his New York City home...
...lovely young thing with a charming little nose . . . She was sold at auction like a slave of Roman days, and so fascinating she was that the final bid for her possession reached the tidy sum of $245,000. Who purchased Sabine at the time, who owns her now, I am not sure-Mr. Harkness was under Sabine's spell, if I am not mistaken...
...This auction took place at the Parke-Bernet Galleries when the estate of Judge Gary was dispersed in 1928 for a total of $2.3 million, "an alltime U.S. record...
...Auctions are apt to produce some bargains as well as some fantastically high prices, but the "anonymous" Madonna and Child recently knocked down at a Manhattan auction for $1,200 seemed to be one of the biggest bargains in auction history...