ART TREASURES.
POOR SALE IN BERLIN
EFFECT OF COURT DECISION
(Australian Press Association.—United Service.) Received October 7, 11.45 a.m. BERLIN, Nov. 6.
The Supreme Court of Prussia upset the Berlin Court’s decision with regard to the sale of art treasures confiscated by the Soviet. A test case was brought by Prince Stromanitz for an injunction against the sale of certain articles. The Prince claimed that the Soviet illegally confiscated 'is property, and the court ordered the withdrawal of the goods pending further decision. In the presence of 1500, concluding Europe’s loveliest women, the Russian art treasures went at bargain prices at Lepke’s salerooms today. The Germans bought nearly all the furniture, because it can be retained in German possession unhindered. The French British and Americans purchased little. The receipts totalled £7OOO below the estimate. The rarest articles brought half the value. The Soviet attaches watched from the galleries depressed at the failure to realise their hopes of profit. An English dealer paid £3OOO for a settee and ten armchairs made for Eugene do Beauharnais. A Berlin collector bought a writing desk by David Rontgen. A Paris dealer paid £3OOO for a cupboard by Joseph Baumhauer.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 292, 7 November 1928, Page 7
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