Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall not be lawful to import any hen or duck eggs in shell into the United Kingdom, nor to sell or expose for sale in the United Kingdom any imported hen or duck eggs in shell, unless they bear an indication of origin...
...This book is intended for average minds equally remote from genius which knows no obstacles, or from stupidity to which everything is an obstacle," says the author. How well he has gauged his readers is already demonstrated by the large sale and wide popularity of the book...
Recently the Metropolitan Museum announced an auction sale of paintings no longer deemed worthy of wall space. Last week the euphemistically-termed "surplus" art was sold. The highest price was $3,500, paid by Circusman John Ringling for Hans Makart's Diana's Hunting Party, a giant canvas (15 by 32 feet), garish and breezy as a circus poster. This will hang in Mr. Ringling's sunny, spacious museum at Sarasota, Fla. For more than 100 pieces the museum received $53,442. Meticulous connoisseurs called it sheer profit, good riddance...
...courtroom. Was it the work of Leonardo da Vinci? To this question Georges Sortais, French connoisseur, had answered YES, and the owner of the painting, Mrs. Harry J. Hahn of Kansas City, had believed him. But Sir Joseph Duveen, potent millionaire art dealer, had murmured NO, thus preventing the sale of the painting to the Kansas City art museum. Therefore Mrs. Hahn had sued Sir Joseph for $500,000 (TIME, Feb. 18). The trial involved comparisons with the famed and very similar La Belle Ferronière in the Louvre, also perhaps a Leonardo. To this question Connoisseur Sortais...
...Into the courtroom came J. Conrad Hug, the Kansas City art dealer who has twice mortgaged his home to obtain money to combat Sir Joseph. A withered, white, frail little old gentleman, he told how he had arranged the sale of the Hahn painting to the Kansas City museum for $250,000, how the Duveen dictum had quashed the bargain. He said that he dealt in picture frames, paintings and etchings. Sir Joseph's lawyer, Louis S. Levy, was quick, acid. "The picture frames are a very big part of your business, aren't they...