The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1899-01-26
FORTUNE FOR A VASE.
Celebrated Pieces of China, Their Vain
and Their Owners.

Celebrated Pieces of China, Their Value
and Their Owners.
Ten thousand guineas paid by the
Earl of Dudley for an antique vase and
ever of early Sevres china was the lar.
gest sum ever paid for vase. 1t was
afterward sold to Baron Schroeder for
8, 900 guineas. Five thousand guineas
was paid at the sale of the Lynes-
Stephens collection in 1895 for an owl
form vase of old Sevres porcelain, paint
ed with horsemen and figures. after
Wouvermans, and a trophy of arms in
two medallions with huted neck and
handles formed as gilt figures of boys,
by Dodin and NORM, 1914 inches high
The price included pair of oviforln,
fat shaped vases of comparatively small
value. apart from the one above de-
scribed, the three being one set which
formed part of the Earl of Pembroke's
collection
In Mr.. Jones' collection of pottery
and porcelain at the South Kensington
museum there is an egg shaped Gros
Bleu Sevres vase with medallions of
Cupid and Psyche which was acquired
for 5000 guineas The celebrated Bar
berini or Portland vase, now preserved
in the gold chamber of the British mu-
scum, was purchased by Sir w Ham
ilton for 81, 200, and afterward sold to
the Duchess Of Portland for 81 800. A
historical vase was recently put under
the hammer at Christie's. 1t was one of
pair presented to the Marquis of
Montcalm 1.-THE defender of Quebec) by
Louis XIV The last bid for this splen-
did work of art was 81, 995. One of the
largest vases in the world was present
from the late car to the city of Paris.
1t is made from an immense block Of
jasper, is eight feet high and is valued
at 81 500 London Tit-Bits.
When Men BUY Plumes.
sat behind two women in Four.
teenth street car when a funeral process
sion, made up Of members of some Sc
oret society in full regalia passed up the
street The sight of the plumed hats dis
pleased one of the women in front of
me.
"Did You ever see nythinS sillier than
.that?" she shifted. Look at those men
dressed up in. all those gewgaws just
20 let folks know they We got secret.
Where would you find women willing
to parade around the streets logged out
like stage soldiers? Who ever heard OF
women doing it? Imagine the Daughters
Of the American Revolution riding
around in cooked hats, or the Women q
Christian Temperance union with gold
laced aprons Women have more sense.
They wouldn't deliberately make them
selves ridiculous that way
Look at those sashes and leok at
those awful hats and those NANCY
plumes. My husband g got them all. He
paid &75 for his outfit. He paid SIS for
o stringy ostrich plume for his hat, and
here the true inwardness Of her
contempt for secret society regalias came
out-'after paying all that for plume
he doesn't wear once in six months, he
almost dropped dead because paid 90
for feather I've worn every day for q
year. A mans just a natural born
well, / won't say it.
But you could see that she thought it,
Just the game. Washington Post
A Pertinent Question.
doctor, where did you get that
beautiful scarfpin?"
''From my first patient.'
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