Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-09-12
VANISHED TREASURES
Some Trophies That Would bs
High Rewards.

Come Trophies That would BITING
High Rewards.
The greatest treasure in sculpture the
world has ever known is imperfect anu
the piece missing-a right arm-"ouiu
hiring TO the finder a kings ransom 80
rov no termed treasure in ITSELF
This arm. of course, belongs 10 VIC
Venus de Milo. now in the Louvre "'
poris and twenty-cight years ago IL
turned M in England and was proved
nv cxoerts to be the genuine arm OF the
v,nus The owner, however, refuseu
20 port with il and concealed 1t some
whore lest il should be stolen py
thieves. When he died he left no rec
ord rs TO where the arm was hlouen'
and from that day to this its resting
place has remained a mystery.
Somewhere there is an old bronze
drinking cup which would easily realize
500 900 if put on the market. 1t Is the
fomous bronze bowl found iraeIgypt
century and a half ago, on which was
encroyed the ancient history OF tne
pharaohs. 1t was stolen from an Es!p-
tian temple in 1879 and brougnt u
Europe. From that time 1t miraculous
lv disappeared. and forty years later
the French government offered Sl4ooo
for its discovery, but the famous cup
had vanished. in all probability forever
Great pictures have an unhappy
knack of disappearing, and lucky
would be the individual who came
across Sir Joshua Reynolds Countess
of Derby" for it would realize Sloo'oOo.
This was acknowledged to be Reynolds
greatest portrait, but not long after II
was PAINTED it disappeared from the
Earl of Derby's collection and mas
never since been heard Of. There are
also two Vandykes and RemDranu'
missing for which the National gallery
would willingly pay 100000, and nc
doubt the Earl of Crewe would give
five figure reward to any one VINO re
stored the Cupid cut by some Vanoa
from the picture Of a former Countess
of Crewe and her son, who was paintec
as the little sprite.
Half a century ago the Italian gov
eminent offered $4,000 to any one wh'
would rediscover the Florentine chai
ice. This is a goblet of green Venetlal
GLASS made in the sixteenth century 10
| tbe nope and engraved with a picture
l of the resurrection. Its manufacture
l said TO have occupied two years ah'
the secret Of the glass, which was tnlh
2 ner than paper. is lost The cup wa
P | stolen from the Vatican, but no on
D came forward to claim the offered re
] ward. and the probabilities are that IN
] cup has been smashed.
+ A similar treasure which vanished i
I an equally strange manner was I'll
n NIarsella vase of Dresden china. ii ]
q the only piece of china missing 1rol
e the famous Marsella collection, IN
5 value of which is set down at S'o'OO'
e and il bears upon it the cross arrow
d and lions head. \ few years ago III
: vase was said to be in the north
e England. and it is safe TO assert that
o any one rediscovers it he can comman
II price running well into five figures.
# Probably in some lumber room in tn
country there is an old sword which,
e the owner only knew it, is worth CO.
II pie of thousand pounds. 1t was II
D. state sword presented by the nation
Edward Ill, and at one time the III
g was studded with large rubies' D.
If these disappeared long before II
ID weapon followed them into OBSCURE
lg some years ago. Any one Of our n
l tional museums would purchase Il
lie sword for the sum mentioned, While
y, is not unlikely that in public aucu'
d. room the bidding would rise even hlg
ST er.-London Tit-Bits.