AN OLD MASTERPIECE?
AUCTION ROOM DISCOVERY
(Per Press Association.)
'' .* _ PALMERSTON 1 N., this.day. kicked up for hiilf-a-crown from imong the jumble of a’ Ideal auction tairt, a picture of Christ wearing a irown of thorns, is now believed to be (h Italian masterpiece by Guido Reni, ft" sixteenth Century work. It is not tnown how the picture came to be in ta neglected state, but the present fiJtner, Mr. J. L. Wightman, has subhltted it to expert opinion, which is tgtreed that it is a sixteenth century frdrk. The only question now remaintig whether it is an original or a The picture is being submitted to a London firm of experts of the highest depute for authentication and valuaidn.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17606, 23 October 1931, Page 9
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119AN OLD MASTERPIECE? Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17606, 23 October 1931, Page 9
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