Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-06-03

A Piano That Cost Forty-six Thousand
Dollars-rwo Hundred and Fifty thous
and Dollar Diamond Nscklaces-AForty
Seven Thousand Dollar Sideboard.
Decorator and RraisAr.
Cost is of course q very unsafe measure
of value in many instances, and yet Their
Is not unnatural curiosity on the part o.
the general public to know the mere money
estimation in which certain more or les
beautiful articles are held. Hereare few
somewhat remarkable examples Of lavish
expenditure:
The highest priced piano in America ID
owned BY b. g. Marquand Of this city,
The works were made BY MessrA Stairway
& Sons, and the case which was built In
London, was designed and painted by
Alma TademA. II cost $40. 600.
Sir Donald Smith If Montreal Is the
owner of the costliest piano ever made In
this country. Il ID also . 6tGnway, and
the Csc was made BY Potter & Stymus.
Its cost, when landed in Montreal, $27, 600.
The most expensive sideboard ever made
in the United States 10 owned BY Judge
Harry Z. Packer of Mauch Chunk, Penn.
II covers the whole side of . room, and
was built by HeFts Brothers for 81, 900.
1t is o marvel of elaborate and beautiful
carving.
Mr.. Marquand 10 also the posssssor Of
the costliest billiard table In the country.
The price was $4,000.
]. w. Mackay furnished about S75, 900
in weight Of silver, and paid Tiffany & Co.
800, 600 for the work on his dinner SER
vice, which thus represents $l95. 0O0.-
The .costliest string Of pearls in the
country belongs to Q New Yorklsdy, and
cost S., 200.
Another New York lady had . solitaire
diamond ring for which she paid Tiffany &
Co. $4,000.
The late Mrs. Morgan paid $3.50, 900 for
her necklace. Mrs. Hicks.Lord Is the
owner of Q diamond necklace which cost
$3.50, 900.
The famous picture by Meissonier, called
1907" was painted for the late A. I.
Stewart. At the sale of his gallery Henry
Hilton bought it for $50. 500, and presented
it to the Metropolitan Museum, where II
now hangs, the costliest painting In Amer
lea.
Sir Donald Smith is the posssssor Of the
highest priced painting in Canada. "The
Communicates" by Jules Breton. Cost
at the Seney sale $45, 600.
W. w. Corcoran Of Washington paid the
highest recorded price for an American
picture. II is Church's Niagara" and
the price was $l3, 900. 1t was reported
that Legrand Lockwood paid SOS, 900 for
Bierstadt's 'Domes of the Yosemite" bat
as at the distribution Of his effects the pic
turs brought less.than Sc, 500 the price was
probably fable.
In the Lanox Library is perfect copy Of
the Mazsrin or Guttenburg Bible, the
first book printed with movable types It
is worth $25, 900, and nothing better has
ever been done since. Mr.. Brsyton Ives
of this city has an imperfect copy, for
which he paid $4,000
J. F. Irwin of Oswego paid SIC, 900 to j.
w. Bouton for bible. 1t was originally
in three volumes, but by the insertion Of
wOod.cuts, manuscripts, engravings, etch-
ings, had been expanded to 60 imperial
folio volumes.
OF the original edition of the Sonnets Of
William Shakespeare, published by George
Daniel of London in 1909, there are two
perfect copies. One is in the British
Museum. For the other Dodd, Mead Il
Co. of this city paid $4,000. 1t is little
book about seven by four inches In s'zs.
A somewhat hardheaded clerk in the estab'
lishment figures that at the price 1t cost
$3.50 an ounce.
A sixteenth century vellum manuscript,
with six paintings by Giulio Clovis, cost
the Lenox Library $l2,0O
At the Morgan sale Mr.. Walters Of Bslti-
more ia reported to have paid $4,000 for
the peachblow vase which is about seven
and half inches high.
The most expensive public building In
the world is the New York State Capitol al
Albany, Just begun. 1t cost $l2, 600, DOC
plus. In mathematics the sign plus means
that an amount can he carried to infinity