IMITATION CHINA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9445, 15 May 1909, Page 5

IMITATION CHINA.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph-Copyright. London, May 14.

The executors of the late Charles Dickens, of the firm of Dickens and Jones, were awarded £10,345 damages against Arthur Ellis, a Bond Street dealer, owing to letters containing fraudulent misrepresentations in connection with sales of china. Dickens, who was an octogenarian, spent £130,000 upon Sevres and Dresden ware. After his death it was discovered these goods were largely ferneries. One case showed that Dickens paid Ellis £I2OO for a piece worth £lO. Jndge Grantham hinted that a criminal prosecution of Ellis should follow.

A civil action against another dealer is ending.