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...succeeds in his disposals his estate will have to pay inheritance taxes on only $5,000,000 worth of art objects. Just when the auctioneer's hammer will begin to fall was not stated, because after three months of work Mr. Hearst's agent, Manhattan Dealer Macdermid Parish-Watson, is nowhere near the end of cataloguing the collection. Hearst papers especially hinted at museum bequests by announcing that their boss meant to "share" his art with the nation...
...possessions. Housed at San Simeon, at Sands Point, L. I., in Manhattan, at St. Donat's and in the Hearst warehouses, his hodgepodge includes thousands of pieces of furniture, tapestries, armor, and hundreds of paintings including a few estimable Bouchers, Van Dycks, Rembrandts. Corrected by precise Agent Parish-Watson last week was the New Yorker's, tale of the palaces stored in The Bronx warehouse. What is actually there is a 12th-Century Spanish monastery, in 10,000 boxes...
These are from the collections of Philip Hofer, of New York City; Mr. Charles B. Hayt, of Cambridge; Dr. Benjamin Rowland, Harvard; the University Museum, Philadelphia; and particularly the firm of Dikran Kelekian, as well as those of Kirkor Minassian, H. Kevorkian, and Parish-Watson, New York...
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