VALUABLE CHEAP PICTURE
A picture, The Queen of Cyprus, which a man had secured in exchange for his typewriter, has just been sold for £3200. It is a Rubens which the art experts had last heard of in 1861. The man who sold it saw it in a Reading antique shop and offered a carpet for it. The shopman said he had bought it at a. Henley auction for £2 10s.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 26, 17 August 1949, Page 8
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71VALUABLE CHEAP PICTURE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 26, 17 August 1949, Page 8
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