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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rents additional cars from Daimler Hire, Ltd., sells old equipages to The Car Mart, Ltd.-all three motor firms holding royal warrants. Less candid are Their Majesties' little extravagances and their sale of whatnots. Thus Her Majesty probably spends more pounds buying Imperial Russian enamel and ikons from Wartski & Co. on Regent Street than on any other self-indulgence. But the fawning Messrs. Wartski hold no royal warrant, even though they have also sold intimate things for King George, such as the chronometer of the royal yacht. Not to be confused with the Regent Street Wartskis are Wartski & Sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: By Royal Warrant | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

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