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Since he had not managed to commit suicide, Stephen Auspitz pulled himself together, ordered sold at once for what it will bring his "priceless" collection of Italian paintings, feature of a loan exhibition in London last year. Explaining the bankruptcy of Auspitz, Lieben & Co., officials said that since 1924 they had made three distinct efforts to put the bank on its feet by speculation. They speculated against the French franc, were fooled and lost heavily when Raymond Poincare stabilized and rehabilitated the money of his country. Second they invested in Dutch industrials, lost more. Third they...
...high out of water. No such incident ever did or could occur. Let Reader Habicht examine his copy Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung more closely. Let him note that it is the annual April Fool's edition. Other pictures in that issue: A "3,000-year-old bas-relief of priceless worth," showing Assyrian gentlemen, playing the saxophone, their ladies drinking cocktails through straws at a bar. Scenes of "Al Capone at Home," showing the gangster's "Louis Quinze" boudoir through an enormous circular bank-vault door; an unwary visitor plunging through a trap door as Capone, sitting...
...gentlemen supported the trailing bridal veil of antique Brussels lace, priceless and some 20 feet long. Instead of a wreath, Princess Isabelle wore a bridal circlet of diamonds. Carrying a missal instead of a bouquet, and leaning on the arm of her father Prince Pierre, she led the royal procession in which walked 54 princes and princesses...
...Parker '98, given in memory of Caroline Miller Dabney Parker, over a period of several years. Among the most recent acquisitions are first editions and original drawings of Crane's illustrations to picture books for children, which sold fifty years ago for a shilling, and are now almost priceless. These include "Mother Hubbard", "Beauty and the Beast", and "The Five Little Pigs", which subsequently ran into many editions under the name of Walter Crane's Picture Books. Along with these were many letters and sketch-books. Some time ago the collection was augmented with the receipt of Crane's famous...
...appraised at $5,000,000 and offered to the city of Paris nine years ago. For nearly an hour he wandered through beautifully paneled rooms, expressing his presidential approval of cabinets of Sevres and Meissen ("Dresden") porcelain, jeweled watches, Battersea enamel, signed furniture from the great French ebenistes, a priceless series of tapestries from cartoons by Boucher, and the gem of the collection, "The Burgomaster's Daughter" by Lucas Cranach. Impulsively, M. le President rushed forward and wrung the hand of the spry little old gentleman who had given all this to France. "Monsieur Tuck," said M. Doumergue, "this...