LOW PRICES.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19462, 8 November 1928, Page 11

LOW PRICES.

RUSSIAN TREASURES. SALE IN GERMANY* (UNITED PRBSS ASSOCIATION—BT BLtCIKIO TKLSORAPH—COPTBiOHT.) BERLIN, tfovelnber 6.- " The Supremo Court of Prussia upset the Berlin Court's decision in the test case brought by Prince Stromahitc for ah injunction against the sale of certain articles by the Soviet. TfcePrinoi claims that the Soviet illegally confiscated the property and the Court ordered the withdrawal of the gdtitii pending a further d&lsion; Iti the presence 6f 1500 peoplot including Europe's loveliest women, RriSj sian art treasures went at bargaii prices at Lepke's the purchasers evidently fearing Miing t8 account at. the Courts of tneir ,dWft countries for being iti possession of confiscated articles. Germans* bbugnt . nearly all the furniture, because . ij> ciin be retained.in Gefhinh ptissessibft unhindered. French.. JBritlshj And Americans purchased little. The receipts totalled. £7OOO WoW the estimate after two hours' .selliiig, the rarest articles bringing half tjh«r value. ..Soviet attaches watched, frcim the galleries^. depressed at the.Failurl to realise their hbpes of a profit.. One English dealer paid £.IOOO for tl settee and ten armchairs riiadeL .18? Eugene de Beauharnais, A Purlin collector, bought, a writitig desk M DAvid Jiontgen, and a Paris dealer ]6aid £3OOO for a cupboard by Joscjptt Baumhatier.—Ahstrafian Press AssoQa- , tion.