RUSSIAN ART TREASURES
SALE BY AUCTION
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 11 a.m.)
BERLIN, Nov. 6
The Supreme Court’s decision in the test case was .brought by Prince Stromauitz lor an injunction against the sale of certain articles which the Prince claims the Soviet illegally confiscated as his property, and the Court ordered a withdrawal of the goods pending further decision. In the presence of fifteen hundred, including Europe’s loveliest women, the Russian art treasures went at bargain prices at Lepkes sale rooms, the purchasers evidently fearing having to account at the Courts of their own countries for the possession of the confiscated articles. Germans bought all furniture because it can be retained in German possession unhindered French and British and Americans purchased little. The receipts totalled €7OOO sterling below the es-
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1928, Page 5
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137RUSSIAN ART TREASURES Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1928, Page 5
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