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Died. Leslie Abraham Hyam, 62, president since 1953 of Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, a London-born patrician who helped found the art auction house in 1937, taking as his fields Chinese jade, French furniture and English flower painting; of a heart attack; in Canaan, Conn...
Auctioneer Louis J. Marion of Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries spent two days all over the house knocking down 680 lots of gilt "French Court" furniture, red cut-velvet curtains, gilded bronzes, chinoiserie and acres of oriental rugs...
...Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries went 23 of her spare baubles, from a $45 sapphire ring to a $47,000 pair of ruby-and-diamond earrings, for an auction that earned her $92,610 in loose change...
Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries -the mortuary-like bureau of cultural standards which inNovember auctioned off the "Million-Dollar Rembrandt" for$2,300,000 - last week provided some even more provocative insightsinto the values of U.S. collectors. Where a penciled score by FredericChopin went for $40, a set of letters from John Glenn to an auto dealer fetched $425 and a collection of Charles Lindbergh memorabilia brought $3,500. Sharpest reflection of the spirit of the age, however, was theprice commanded by some correspondence of Sigmund Freud...
...paintings were left to her in trust, and Anna Erickson decided that her own estate should be divided into 90 parts, to accommodate all the heirs (relatives, friends and charities), and that meant that it had to be liquidated. She died last Feb. 7 of a stroke; Parke-Bernet's first memo on how to get the job of auctioning the Erickson collection was dated...