OLD SILVER
' FROM ENGLISH COUNTRY HOMES.
BEING BOUGHT EAGERLY BY AMERICANS.
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 ai London auctions is now bought by America. At the June sale of the library of the great surgeon Sir D’Arcy Power, which fetched £2,414, no less than £1,388 was spent by a single American buyer. The celebrated Bayley s I realise on the Eye” went to tne States at £145. „ , In silver, Americans are out for large Georgian sets of soup and meat plates. They prefer a somewhat florid Georgian style; Elizabethan and Cromwellian silver does not attract so many of them. The main reason for the present migration of old English silver to the States is the high income tax and death duties which are bringing it into the market from England’s historic country homes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1941, Page 2
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168OLD SILVER Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1941, Page 2
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