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...Teddy bears stood button-eyed vigil over dressers festooned with framed pictures of parents and boy friends. Among the souvenirs of tender evenings past was a long-empty champagne bottle. In the three upstairs bedrooms lined with bunks, the closets were crammed with party dresses. In one bedroom, a postcard was fondly pinned to a notice board: "Some day before you know it, school will be over with. It's pretty lonesome here without you. Really. Peter...
...George and the Dragon, bought with funds from Ailsa Mellon Bruce, is even rarer and richer, considering its size. So small is the postcard-shaped (5⅜ in. by 4⅛ in.) oil that the gallery has built a magnifying glass in the showcase; so costly is it that the work was auctioned last March for $26,552 per sq. in. At the sale, it was called a Hubert van Eyck, but the National's curators now attribute it to Rogier van der Weyden. They suspect that St. George is one part of a diptych whose matching half, which...
These figures emerged yesterday from a postcard survey taken of all Radcliffe seniors by the 'Cliffe deans and News Office last January...
Stamp for the Postcard...
...Your "good things in small packages" analysis of the sale of the postcard-size Hubert Van Eyck oil [March 25, p. 69], and mention of the advantages of the rare stamp [p. 88], made me check the value of the world's most valuable postage stamp, the British Guiana 1? of 1856. Last year this l-sq.-in. stamp was displayed at Royal Festival Hall in London, insured for a healthy $560,000-so the portable rare-painting market still has some distance to go to catch up with the portable rare stamp...