DEAD WIFE'S RING
CZECH'S .CONTRIBUTION LORD MAYOR SELLS FOR £250 LONDON. Oct. 17 The retiring Lord Mayor of London, Sir Harry Twyford, at a dinner this week, related a story of a little East End Jewish tailor who called on him and said that all he could offer the Czechoslovak relief fund was his dead wife's wedding ring, which he wished to sell on behalf of the fund, in spite of efforts to dissuade him from doing so, he left the ring on the table. The Lord Mayor, displaying the ring at jEho dinner, said he had already ro- , ceiVted a bid of £SO for it, and that he Would sell it to the highest bidder. Orife of the diners offered £IOO for the ring. Mrs. Anthony de Rothschild called £2OO, but a French banker raised the .price to £250, and secured the ring. Sir Harry Twyford urged the buyer to.return, the ring to the tailor, who, However, had not; left either Vtia name or his address.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23177, 25 October 1938, Page 10
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