NEW USE FOR DEEDS.
The latest fancy of smart interior decorators is to use old parchment deeds in making lampshades and wastepaper baskets (writes our London correspondent.) The parchment is mounted to show the meticulous clerkly writing to the best effect, and is then highly varnished. Old writing established firms of family solicitors. are being asked to part with useless' deeds, and marriage settlements and disentailing deeds of 150 and 200 years ago are much ,in demand owing to their tremendous length. A lampshade, made from' an interesting old deed, may fetch as much as £15 15/. In some cases wastepaper baskets are being made of documents engrossed on paper. One well-known city magnate has his library equipped with wastepaper baskets, not unsuitably made Irom the /highly decorative, but valueless, Bhare_ certificates of a mining company, involf was once rash enough to invest money;. ,\ °
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 230, 28 September 1929, Page 4 (Supplement)
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144NEW USE FOR DEEDS. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 230, 28 September 1929, Page 4 (Supplement)
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