DUKE TO SELL ART TREASURES.
GERMAN NEWSPAPERS WAX INDIGNANT. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received January 2, 11.30 a.m.) BERLIN, January 1. The ex-Kaiser’s son-in-law, Duke Ernst of Brunswick, recently decided to sell to German art dealers for £500,000 his famous collection of mediaeval w’orks of ecclesiastical art, known as the Guelph Treasure. The news was received with indignant protests from the whole of the German Press, which fears the re-sale of the works to America, upon which the Duke offered the treasure, as well as his palace near Hanover, with its panic, to the people for £500,000. The offer is estimated to be worth £BOO,OOO. The Hanover Council, on which there are a majority of Socialists and Communists, rejected the offer on the ground of economy, and therefore the collection will now be sold.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18958, 2 January 1930, Page 1
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