Kraemer sale yields 26103 in Paris auctions
Transatlantic report notes Kraemer collection draws Paris buyers reduced by under 2000. Huet pictures sell for 1640, Mme Vigée Lebrun portrait at 1000, Perronneau portrait 700, Boucher pastels 562, and Casanova cavalry 604 amid total 25103.
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Paris
Thoday
Eugene Kraemer
Boucher
Mme. Vigée- Lebrun
Perronneau
Besse
Louis XIII
Venus
Casanova
Antoine de Lilly
Comte de la Roche
London celebrates King's birthday on eve of Derby
London crowds fill Horse Guards Parade for Trooping the Colors as King George VI’s birth day festivity dominates the eve of the Derby. Weather looks fine with heat, possible thunder. Craganour and Nimbus lead betting, Anmer dismissed as long shot. Knight's Key scratched.
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Horse Guards
London
England
Epsom
C. Bower Ismay
Craganour
Johnny” Reiff
Nimbus
Milton Henry
King
Anmer
Richard Croker
Knight’s Key
Sothebys Sale Drops Rarities in London Auction
In Sotheby’s Huth library sale in London on June 3, rare volumes sold for high sums. Highlights include Le Facecileux Revelille-Matin des Esprits Meilancholiques at 1654 Utrecht octavo for $560, Memoirs of John Evelyn in deluxe form for $530, and the first vellum edition of Directorium Inquisitorium reaching $6,520. Other notable sales include Peterman Etterlyn’s Kronica at $190, Everie Woman in Her Humor at $440, Expositio hymno at $300, and Esquemeling’s De Americaensche Zee-Roovers at $205.
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Marconi
New York Times
London
Huth
Sotheby's Today
Utrecht
Roger Payne
Henry Huth
John Evelyn
W. Bray
Peterman Etterlyn
Basel
William Tell
Wynkyn de Worde
Fleet Street
J. Esquemeling
Amsterdam
America
Sir Henry Morgan
Puerto Rico
Panama
John Fiquemeling
Geffrey Fenton
Berlin Silent on San Francisco Exposition Tariff Clash
Berlin reports say Germany may retaliate against the US tariff law with a boycott of the San Francisco Exposition. German manufacturers protest imperial rules forcing firms to show books to US customs, and Berlin voices stronger anti US sentiment amid talks of joint actions with England and broader European alignment.
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New York Times
Berlin
United States
Canada
Germany
San Francisco
America
England
Count Bernstorff Returns From Berlin Visit
Count Johann von Bernstorff, German Ambassador to Washington, arrived by Kronprinzess in Cecilie from Berlin after briefing Emperor William on tariff plans. He said he hurried back to be at Princeton on June 10 to receive an LL D honorary degree, accompanied by his son Count Gunter Bernstorff.
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Count Johann von Bernstorff
Washington
Kronprinzess
Cecilie
Berlin
Emperor William
Count von Bernstorff
Princeton University
Count Gunter Bern
German envoy to New York–Kommer plans marked by protests
The article notes US reaction to German boycott threats over aspects of the Arizona Tariff bill. Count Bernstorff refused to discuss the matter. On June 15 the German Ambassador will attend a Kommers in New York likely at the Hotel Astor to mark the 25th anniversary of the Emperor with patriotic Germans and beer steins.
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Bryan
Germany
Count Bernstorff
New York
Hotel Astor
Chippendale Bedstead Sells For Four Thousand Two Hundred
At Christies Wilson sale in London on June 8 a Chippendale mahogany bedstead with fluted posts and carved scrollwork sold for 4200 dollars, including a coverlet cornice and pair of curtains. A Georgian mahogany table with lions masks and shells fetched 1205 dollars.
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London
Christie’s
Walter de Mumm Married in London
Walter de Mumm of Rheims France wed Frances von Bergen Scoville daughter of Courtenay Scoville of Seneca Kansas at St George's Hanover Square London. Best man Herman Mumm and guests included Anthony J. Drexel and the Earl and Countess of Portarlington. The couple had been linked to a December Paris shooting incident involving Mrs Marie Van Rensimer Ines.
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London
Walter de Mumm
Rheims
France
St. George's
Hanover Square
Frances von Bergen Scoville
Courtenay Kenneday Scoville
Seneca
Kan
Louis Treadwell
Albany
N. Y
Hermann Mumm
Anthony J. Drexel
Earl and Countess of
de Mumm-Scoville
Paris
Marie van Rensimer Ines
Barnes
de Mumm
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