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...well-dressed plumpish man, who bore a striking resemblance to France's late, great King Louis XVI, was a determined auction bidder in Paris last week for a dull, tarnished guillotine blade said to have cut off the head of His late Majesty. Up went bids from 2,000 francs ($135) until everyone dropped out but the plumpish unknown and that well-known collector of French Revolution mementoes, M. Charles Lievre. In a final spurt to 12,500 francs ($835), the blade went to M. Lievre, along with documents certifying that until 1893 it had remained in the executioner...
...sells condensed and evaporated milk under the slogan "Milk from Contented Cows." The 1,500-acre experimental Carnation Farms are conducted in the interest of dairying in general, for all of the milk to be canned is bought from other farms. Farmers improve their herds by buying stock at auction from the Farms. Milk from Daisy and the other contented cows on the Carnation Farms is sold raw in Seattle...
TWENTY-TWO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING AND ROBERT BROWNING - United Feature Syndicate ($10). Hand-printed edition of the hitherto unpublished letters which were sold at auction in Manhattan last April for $40,000, were afterwards reprinted in the Woman's Home Companion...
...Civil War. Young Tom Clarke went into the linen business. His real life, though, was spent buying & selling pictures and furniture. He started the nucleus of his great collection of U. S. portraits in 1872. In 1899, dissatisfied with what he had bought, he sold most of them at auction for $235,000, began collecting all over again. In 1924 a sale of his early American furniture brought...
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