FORCED SALES
GERMAN ART TREASURES FOREIGN CURRENCY NEEDED 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, arid America. A special discount of 33 per cent, will be offered to buyers who pay in sterling or dollars.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 7
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84FORCED SALES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 7
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