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...Yorkers who had $1 and the inclination were given opportunity last week to inspect 82 objects that made up the greatest collection of medieval art ever to come to the U. S.-one of the greatest in the world-the Welfenschatz or Guelph Treasure...
...Guelphs and Ghibellines are names familiar to historians, confusing to the laity. Guelph comes from hwelp or whelp, meaning a wolf's pup, and Ghibelline is an Italian attempt to pronounce the name of the counts of Waiblingen...
Founder of the present collection was the Guelph Duke Henry the Lion, who died in 1195, left his son Otto IV the collection of gold and jewel-studded relics which grateful Eastern emperors had given him in Constantinople. Otto IV donated the treasure, adding more himself, to the Cathedral of St. Blasius which Henry the Lion had built in the city of Brunswick. Other Guelphs did likewise, bought saints' bones, holy skulls, jeweled monstrances, candelabra, etc. etc. After 300 years of this the Guelphs felt that they had collected enough. Ten years before America was discovered they made...
...Germany the Duke of Brunswick, son-in-law of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II, announced that he had sold for $2,500,000 certain medieval gems and knick-knacks known as the "Guelph Treasure," to Goldschmidt Galleries, Inc., of Manhattan...
Died. Alex S. D. Hill, 90, brother of the late great Railroader James Jerome ("Empire Builder") Hill; at Guelph...