SELLING ART TREASURES
GERMANY'S PREDICAMENT SHORT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY MUNICH, June 8. Germany has been driven to selling national art treasures in order to obtain foreign currency. The first large-scale auction will open here tomorrow, when 777 works and pieces will be offered from the Berlin State Museum, including two Botticellis and one Tintoretto Keen bidding is expected from dealers from England, France, Holland and America A special discount of 33 per cent, will be offered to buyers who pay in sterling or dollars. It is hoped that sufficient foreign currency will be obtained to help to relieve Dr Schacht's most urgent difficulties.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23213, 10 June 1937, Page 11
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