Milford chronicle., 1903-09-11
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VANISHED TREASURES.
Some Trophies That Would Bri1s
High Rewards.

The greatest treasure in sculpture the
world has ever known is imperfect, and
the piece missing-a right arm-wolid
bring TO the finder a kings ransom. so
may be termed a treasure in itself.
This arm, Of course, belongs to the
Venus de Milo, now in the Louvre a
Paris. and twenty-eisht years ago it
turned up in England and was proved
by experts to be the genuine arm of the
Venus. The owner. however, refused
TO part with it and concealed it some
whore lest it should be stolen by
thieves. When he died he left no rec
ord as to where the arm was hidden,
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
100000 if put on the market. 1t is the
famous bronze bowl found in Egypt a
century and a half ago. on whicL was
engraved the ancient history of the
pharaohs. 1t was stolen from an Egyp-
tian temple in 1879 and brought to
Europe. From that time it miraculous
" disappeared, and forty years later
the French government offered Sl4.OCO
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 $l5O.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 has
never since been heard of. There are
also two Vandykes and a Rembrandt
missing for which the National gallery
would willingly pay 100000. and nc
| doubt the Earl of Crewe would give a
| FIVE figure reward to any one who re
stored the Cupid cut by some vandal
| from the picture of a former Countess
/ Of Crewe and her son, who was painted
rs the little sprite.
Half century ago the italian gov
ernment offered $4,000 to any one who
would rediscOver the Florentine chal
/ ice. This is Il goblet Of green Venetian
glass made in the sixteenth century fol
the pope and engraved with n picture
OF the resurrection. Its manufacture is
said to have occupied two years. ant
the secret of the glass, which was tl.in
ner than paper, is lost The cup was
stolen from the Vatican, but no On'
came forward to claim the offered re
ward. and the probabilities are that td'
cup has been smashed.
\ similar treasure which vanished il
an equally strange manner was th'
Marsella vase of Dresden china. 1t il
the only piece of china missing from
the famous Marsella collection, th'
value of which is set down at $4,000
and it bears upon it the cross arrows
and a lions head. a few years ago TIN
vase was said to be in the north o
England. and it is safe TO assert that /
any one rediscOvers it he can comman,
a price running well into five figures.
Probably i'm some lumber room in thi
country there is an old sword which, /
the owner only knew it, is worth cou
pie of thousand pounds. 1t was tn
state sword presented by the nation t
Edward Ill, and at one time the hil
was studded with large rubies, bu
these disappeared long before tn
weapon followed them into Obscurit
some years ago. Any one of our na
tional museums would purchase tn
sword for the sum mentioned. while
is not unlikely that in . public auctio
room the bidding would rise even high
er.-LondOn Tit-Bits.