ENGLAND'S HOMES
,: ARE SELLING THEIR OLD SILVER TO U.S.A. British art dealers did not take their annual holiday this year because they were too busy. Their export business has gone up by half since last year. .-■■ Eighty per cent of the precious books, rare bindings and old silver sold at London auctions is now bought by America. At the June sale of the library off the great surgeon Sir D'Arcy Power, which fetched £2414, no less than £1388 was spent by a single American buyer. The celebrated Bayley'p Treatise on the Eye' went to the States at £145. In silver, Americans are out for ~ targe Georgian sets of soup and meat plates. They prefer -a somewhat florid Georgian style; Elizabethan and Gromwellian silver Joe? not attract so many of them* J The main reason for the present \ migration of old English silver to ,' the States is the income and death duties which are bring) it into the market from historic country homes.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 176, 5 November 1941, Page 4
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162ENGLAND'S HOMES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 176, 5 November 1941, Page 4
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