MINSTER’S CLASS
DEAN SAYS IT IS WORTH £73,000,000.
The Dean of York, speaking in Hull stated that, calculated' on the basis of the price fetched for English mediaeval glass in America, the glass in York Minster was worth £73,000,000. It was being releaded and cleaned. At a sale in New York, said the 1 Dean, a piece of stained Early English glass, measuring 30 inches by ol inches, realised orver £IB,OOO. He based the value of the Minster glass on that, and had mentioned it to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who commented: “No one would Buy in such large-quantities.” “My reply,” said the Dean, “was that at wae mot for sale.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11423, 20 January 1923, Page 13
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111MINSTER’S CLASS New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11423, 20 January 1923, Page 13
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