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Fingers snapped and the bids jumped up last week in Manhattan's American Art Association-Anderson Galleries until the auctioneer's ivory hammer knocked down a 15th Century portrait bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana to Lord Duveen of Millbank, for $102,500. It was the highest price paid at an art auction in New York since Depression, high water mark in the three day sale of the heterogeneous art collection of shrewd old Thomas Fortune Ryan. Relatives, collectors, and many of the original dealers from whom he bought them bid up the rest...
...profits went into stamps. His first big purchase was a lot of 12,000 for which he paid $3,000. After weeding out forgeries, worthless stamps, repaired and damaged stamps, 500 were left. The faster plush rolled out of his mills the faster stamps snowed into his albums. Lord Duveen managed to sell him his own stamp collection for $170,000. In 1922 Arthur Hind made world headlines by paying the highest price ever for a postage stamp- $32,500 for the only 1856 1? British Guiana stamp in existence...
...produce absolute evidence to prove that either Mme Halm's or the Louvre's Belle was from the brush of Leonardo. Sir Joseph was technically exonerated, but the trial did his reputation no good. An appeal was started, suddenly dropped. Two rumors persisted: 1) that Sir Joseph Duveen had bought Mme Hahn off; 2) that the suggestions of Sir Joseph's business methods when faced by an important art sale from which he was unable to profit, kept Sir Joseph for three years from the British peerage which he so burningly desired...
...When Duveen first denounced the Hahn Belle, Mme Harm's husband was a Kansas City auto salesman anxious to help but untutored in the art of expertizing paintings. Last week, while Lord Duveen in his scarlet cloak and cocked hat entered the House of Lords to bow three times before the Lord Chancellor and take his seat as a peer of the realm, Harry J. Hahn reappeared in the New York Press, with every phrase of the art expert's vocabulary at the tip of his tongue. Mr. Hahn was ready to damn Lord Duveen anew and present...
...time of the Hahn-Duveen trial, the Hahn portrait's ownership had already been traced back to the same General Tourton, banker for the Revolutionary Government...