SALE IN LONDON
FURNISHINGS FROM GERMAN EMBASSY London, Nov. 26. Furnishings from the German Embassy in London brought £ 19,800 at the first day of the auction. Of the total £7OOO was paid for carpets. A Savonnerie carpet brought £590 and an Aubusson £4BO. Ribbentrop’s writing table brought £590. Private buyers often outbid dealers. Small mahogany bookcases brought £SO to £6O, and an ordinary mahogany armchair £BS. A former detainee under Regulation 188, Captain Gordon Canning, who was a member of the AngloGerman organisation “This Link,” bought for £SOO the bust of Hitler which occupied the place of honour in the former German Embassy. Canning acquired the bust at the sale. He told reporters. “Jesus 2000 years ago was mocked, scorned and crucified. He to-day is a living force in the hearts and minds of millions of people.” Canning added that the bust might return to the German people in about 25 years’ time. o%her lots sold for £313 included German flags which were to be flown over conquered London The sale so far has realised £66,000.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 29 November 1945, Page 6
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