Word: lichtenstein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected to convene within six weeks. Last week, however, the Baden-Baden bankers did what they could to make their signatures imposing. They had no Great Seal. They could not use the seals of their own banks, sacred to commerce. But the smart Chicagoan secretary of the conference, Dr. Lichtenstein, had a watchcharm seal: "W. L." Pressing this upon a hot red splotch of wax, Mr. Lichtenstein* sealed with humorous pomposity a business paper more vital than many a treaty. In effect it is the blueprint design for a giant cash register through which Germany will pay some nine billion...
Second in importance to Philatelist Hind's $82,500 scraps were three more Mauritius stamps?one tuppenny, two one-pennies? owned by Alfred F. Lichtenstein of Manhattan. He also showed to envious fellow collectors the "most beautiful philatelic piece," and original cover bearing four neatly pasted Cape of Good Hope triangular "wood blocks," addressed in a fine, spidery hand...
...Dionysus. Together they cultivated bees and vines, sampled the wines. Peter Paul Rubens painted Der Trunkene Silen (The Drunken Silenus) reeling over a woman and her babes, supported by a satyr and a blackamoor, followed by a panther. This picture, long owned by the late Prince John of Lichtenstein, was sold, last week, for $30,000 to Mark Lindebaum, Viennese engineer and oil tycoon...
...days earlier than he had meant to) a new two-cent stamp to commemorate the Battle of White Plains. Colonel E. H. R. Green (son of the late Hetty Green), Charles N. Ams (whose collection of Gambia stamps is second to no other collection of Gambia stamps), Alfred F. Lichtenstein, Swiss stamp collector, Miss Ellen F. Nason of Claremont, N. H., collector of Arabian stamps, with all the special issues for Jeddah and Nejd -these and many more sent their best. But one and all, when they beheld a black and magenta stamp lying by itself in a case...
...Strauses are not to be confused with Strausses, among whom there are Joseph, famed Admiral; Albert, of Joseph Seligman & Co.; Charles, lawyer; Lewis Lichtenstein, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. ; Richard, famed Bavarian composer...