STOLEN ART TREASURES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26199, 9 July 1946, Page 5

STOLEN ART TREASURES

LOCATED IN A GATEWAY POLICEMAN’S DISCOVERY (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, July 7. A policeman cycling on his beat in Hyde, Cheshire, found stacked in a gateway most of the vanished £40,000 art treasures which belonged to the late Louis Cartier, says the Daily Express. They were packed in half a dozen tea chests and eight smaller boxes. The contents, including dozens of silver salvers, porcelain figures, big silver wine coolers and treasures, were brought to England from France in 1939 and hidden in a garage at Ingmire Hall, Sedbergh, Yorkshire, which almost throughout the war was requisitioned by the army and surrounded by barbed-wire and sentries night and day. Last November when Cartier’s executors went to collect the treasures they found many of the cases empty. Recently police inquiries were intensified, and apparently the thieves decided to abandon the loot as too rare and costly for disposal through doubtful channels.