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...Harry Jacobs for $410) on which Mr. Long and the late Ella Wilson Long used to sit only at Christmas when they gave presents to the servants. In the French salon beneath an enormous pear-shaped crystal chandelier (sold to Dr. Abraham Sophian for $470), was a walnut and gold-leaf player piano (to Mrs. John K. Jasper; $1,325), a matching walnut cabinet for music rolls (to Mrs. Victor Schutte; $87.50). A rose and ivory French hand-piled rug was appraised at $8,000, sold for $500. Vases and urns, including a huge Austrian-ware receptacle decorated with...
Appearing, as it did, on the topmost pinnacle of the new Memorial Chapel, without explanation of its form, the gold-leaf plated wind-vane has caused much inquiry, some people even questioning whether it was a fisk's tail surmounted by a harp. It was learned late last night that the vane is in the shape of a penant flying in the wind, and is copied from a medieval lance. The cap topping the mast is made up of two Greek crosses...
When Marie Antoinette heard about the Duchess of Villeroy's fine new piano, she wanted one too. Who had built it? A certain young architect and engineer of Strasbourg named Sebastian Erard. Then let Sebastian Erard make another one for Versailles, let it be embellished with painting, gold-leaf and ivory. The instrument won the admiration of the court. Thereafter Piano-Maker Erard had more work than he and his brother could...
...York City's socialite suburb Irvington-on-Hudson and furnished it for $350,000. Last week "Madame" Walker's rich heir, Mrs. Lelia Walker Robinson, ordered the furnishings auctioned. Mrs. Mamie Pratt, friend of "Madame's," bought three black pillows for her Harlem undertaking establishment. A gold-leaf piano brought $450, a gold-leaf phonograph $45. Women fought for nicknacks. Total sales...
...acted as though they had seen the Moscow Art Theatre. Columns of frenzied adjectives flashed eastward. For two weeks the adjectives knocked around the managers' offices. Suddenly they penetrated three heads at once. Almost simultaneously Florenz Ziegfeld, Lee Shubert and Irving Berlin started burning the Western wires with gold-leaf offers for Patricia's pilgrimage to Broadway...