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...singsong chant of an auctioneer rang through the gilded, tapestried halls of Cairo's Kubbeh Palace last week, sounding the end of one of the most expensive and generally useless collections of gimcrackery ever assembled. Like a royal pack rat, ex-King Farouk had cached everything he could beg, buy and demand-tiny telescopes with diamond sprays, priceless relics of Pharaonic culture, a 100blade knife, an outstanding coin collection, a Nazi marshal's gaudy baton. Egypt's revolutionary regime was putting all of it-treasure and trash-on the block in a six-week sale...
...auctioneer began by offering Farouk's mountain of stamps, one of the most important collections ever sold publicly. Sixty expert philatelists from all over the world bid briskly with a jerk of the thumb, a murmur in any of half a dozen languages, which the auctioneer swiftly understood. Said the buyer for America's Gimbels department-store chain: "The early part of the collection of Farouk's father shows the care and feeling that marks the collector. But Farouk's contribution is just a mixed-up accumulation." Added a European dealer who used to sell...
...Farouk accepted a ?75,000 bribe from the cotton speculators to plead their case before the Cabinet...
...government officials and businessmen were told exactly what presents to give at Farouk's wedding. Industrialist Ahmed Abboud gave a ?35,000 gold tea service...
...Swap of the week: Egypt's ex-Queen Narriman gave permanent custody of little King Fuad II, 2, to his doting father, Egypt's dethroned King Farouk, in exchange for his agreement to divorce...