The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-01-02
LOST WORKS OF ART
1REASURES WORTH FORTUNES
TO THE FINDERS.
Many Precious Objects for Which
Governments. and Private Collectors
J Would Pay Vast Amounts--some
Probably Lost Forever.

The greatest treasure in sculpture
the world has ever known is imper-
feet, and the piece missing-a right
arm-would bring the finder in 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, Paris and twenty
eight years ago it turned up in Eng
land. and was proved by experts to
be the genuine arm of the Venus. The
owner, however, refused to part with
it, and concealed it somewhere lest it
should be stolen by thieves. When he
died he left no record as to where
the arm was hidden, and from that
day to this its resting-plac has :re-
manned a mystery.
Somewhere there is an old bronze
drinking-cup which would easily re-
alize 100000 If put on the market
1t is the famous bronze bowl found
in Egypt century and a half ago.
on which was engraved the ancient
history of the 'Pharaohs. 1t was
stolen from IAN Egyptian temple in
1882 and taken to Europe. From that
tin1o it miraculously disappeared. and
forty years later the French govern
ment offered "$14. 900 for its discovery.
but the famous cup had vanished, in
all probability for ever.
Great pictures have an unhappy
knacl of disappearing. and lucky
would be the individual who came
across Sir Joshua Reynolds "Coun-
tess Of Derby" for it would realize
$l50.0oo. This was acknowledged to
be Reynolds greatest portrait but not
long after it was painted il disap-
Deared from the Earl OF Derbys COL
lection and has never since been
heard OF. There are also two Van
dykes and a Rembrandt missing for
which the British National Gallery
would willingly pay 100000, and nc
doubt the. Earl of Crewe would give
q big reward to any one who returned
the Cupid cut 'By some vandal from
! the picture Of former Countess OF
:. CreWe and her son, who was painted
as the little sprite
! Half century ago the Italian gov
fv71F1nuene offered S5U,OU0 Is any one
who would rediscover the Florentine
chaIice. This is a goblet Of gree,
venetian glass. made in the sixteenth
century for the Pope and engraved
with a picture of the Resurrection
It's manufacture is. said to have oc
cup1ed two years, and the secret O
me glass. which was thinner thar
paper, is lost. The cup was stole,
from the Vatican; but no one came
forward to claim the offered reward
ana the probabilities are that the cu,
has been smashed.
A similar treasure, which vanished
IN an equally strange manner was
the Marsella vase of Dresden china
lt IS the only piece Of china missing
from the famous Marsella collection
tne value of which is set down al
S'o'ooo' and it bears upon it the cross
arrows and a lions head
PROBABLY In lumber room in some
part OF Britain there is an old sword
"hlch. II the owner only knew it. is
worth about 100000 1t was the
state sword presented by the nation
10 EDWARD ILL.,, and at one time. the
nit was studded with large rubies.
but these disappeared long before the
weapon followed them into obscuritv
some years ago. Any one of the
BRUSH national museums would n,r-
chase the sword for the sum mention.
3D. while 1t is not unlikely that in
"a public auction room the biddin :.
would rise even higher.