Doucet Sale in Paris Realizes $2.5 Million final-day bid totals
Paris June 7 Jacques Doucet sale at Georges Petit Gallery posts a day of high prices with $286,754 in sales. Highlights include Kangxi porcelain vases at $20,000, Sevres works at $11,600, and Chantilly figures at $8,600. Overall day adds to over $2.5 million across three days, with totals rising further by 10 percent for expenses.
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Cour Des Monnaies
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Louis XV
Chantilly
China
Seligman
Louis XVI
Doentscheld
Christie's Raeburn sale features portraits and Old Masters
At Christie's London on June 7 a sale of pictures from anonymous sources highlighted Raeburn portraits and other Old Master works. Notable bids included Mrs Helen Colver at 2,050 guineas, a Jan Steen feast for 2,050 guineas, and Rembrandt pupil van den Eeckhout at 250 guineas, with various other European masters and a Vigée Le Brun linked piece drawing strong action in the market.
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Christie’s
Raeburn
Helen Colver
Renny
Colnaghi
Asher Wertheimer
Scipio
Rembrandt
van den Eeckhout
George IV
John Russell
Salomon van Ruysdael
Colnaghi & Obach
P. L
Agnew
Luini
St. Catherine of Siena
Gooden & Fox
Lely
Lady Alston
Odell Castle
Bedfordshire
Knoedler & Co
Doucet
Paris
Vigée le Brun
Mme. de Beon
Manuscripts Bring High Prices At Sale
A Sotheby’s sale reports lavish prices for medieval and early printed works. A 14th century illuminated French Chronicles of St Denis sold for 8250 dollars, Caxton 1481 Beowulf edition for 1750, and Columbus Epistola from 1493 for 1050. Other items fetched 1200, 1450, 315, and 560 dollars.
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Les Chroniques de France
Morocco
Derome
St. Denis
A. D
Paris Bibliothéque
Haemel
Charles VI
Flanders
Caxton
J. O. Halliwell
Lilly
Henry Huth
F. Bedford
Anthony Chute
Beawtie
Shore
Eduard Winckfield Knight
George Steevens
Bindley
Perry
Jolley
George Daniel
British Museum
Christopher Columbus
Stephen Planck
Rome
Chute
The
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Sultan Hafid Leaves Fez for Rabat and France
Sultan Mulai Hafid, with French Minister Regnault and a strong escort, departed Fez for Rabat on June 7 en route to France. Moroccans watched from derelict streets as Gen. Lyautey accompanied the sultan to the city gates hoping for safe passage from rebel tribes.
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Sultan Mulai Hafid
M. Regnault
Rabat
France
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Lisbon Greets Fair Envoys on Pacific Exposition
Lisbon welcomes members of the Panama Pacific Exposition Commission, who arrive amid enthusiastic reception. A Cabinet formation will be deferred until their departure to allow official entertainments including receptions with the President and Premier, a dinner at the American Legation, a City Hall reception, and a Government cruiser excursion.
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Lisbon
United States
Madrid
Alaska Volcano Erupts Shifts Ash Over Cordova
Cordova Alaska June 7 Volcanic ash falls thickly over the city confirming a volcanic eruption after heavy detonations heard in the mountains last night The ashfall occurred rapidly after the sounds suggesting imminent activity at the Redoubt of the Iliamna Mountain in Cook Inlet.
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Alaska
Heven
Iliamna
Cook ‘Inlet
D'Annunzio Plans Return From Exile to Pes cara
Paris rumor says Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio weary of exile and ready to relocate to Italy. He would establish headquarters in the Pescara region, the setting of his early work Short Stories of Pescara.
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Italy
Pescara District
Paris
D’annunzio
Pescara
Horse Throws Saxony's King At Review
Dresden dispatch reports Frederick August, King of Saxony, was thrown from his horse during army maneuvers while reviewing the cavalry. The king suffered a badly wrenched right leg and was stably attended.
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Saxony
Dresden
Frederick August
Resentler's Life of King Edward VII Provokes Criticism
The Daily Telegraph attacks Sidney Lee's Edward VII biography as untimely and tactless. Lee defends the Dictionary of National Biography and its standards, saying the work provides concise, carefully treated facts for scholars. Telegraph cites reliance on conversational sources and unpublished papers, including Sir Charles Dilke's diary, as the basis for its harsh judgment.
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Sidney Lee
Edward VII
Daily Telegraph
Lee
Dictionary of National Biography
The
Telegraph
Daily Mail
Sir Charles Dilke
Venice Fears for Gondolas Over Tunnel Plan
The Venice correspondent reports worries as a submarine tunnel plan with electric car service seeks to link Venice with the mainland. Proposals to bridge or fill the lagoon were dropped to avoid marring views and isolation. the tunnel would exit near St Mark's, Giudecca, and Lido with a Quattro Fontane end, cost about 2.4 million dollars.
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Marcon
New York Times
Venice
Nel
Royal Palace
St. Mark
Giudecca Island
Lido
Quattro Fontane
Landscape engineer sacrifices life to save woman in Quebec
Ira Holt of Buffalo, a landscape engineer, drowned while canoeing with Miss Madeleine Smith on the St. Maurice River. He helped her to safety on the overturned craft but could not support them both and sank as the current swept them away. His body had not been recovered.
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Grand Mere
Quebec
Ira Holt
Buffalo
Madeleine Smith
St. Maurice
Holt
Explosion at Austrian ammunition factory kills dozen
June 7 Vienna reports twelve people slain and many injured at the Woellersdorf ammunition factory in Wiener Neustadt when an explosion rocked a shed with serasite. Victims include soldiers and workers as shocks shattered the town and damaged nearby Aden watering place.
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Woellersdorf
Wiener-Neustadt
Aden
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