New-York tribune., 1916-07-29
Official AppraiSement Puts Morgan
Estate Valuation at Over SIS, 900, 900
Continued from paGe I

manuscripts, books and prints owned
by Mr.. Morgan at S4,096,666 The
etchings included collection by Rem
brandt, on which a valuation of $685.
995 was placed. which included "Christ
Healing the Sick" $4,000, and "Christ
Presented To tic People" $4,000.
Costly Art Collections.
Other art collections were appraised
by experts as follows: Miniatures. by
James p. Townsend. S41s,i70; Chi
nese porcelains, by Thomas f. Kirby.
s2,i7s,320; tapestries, rugs and car
pets, by Emile Baumgarten. s2,S22 900.
The following appraisals were made
by Thomas Ward: Dresden porce-
lains, s53i $50; French porcelains,
s2l3,l50; watches. many antique'and
set with precious stones, sl74,450;
jewels and jewelry, also on exhibition
at the Metropolitan MUSEUM OF Art,
s249,600 worries, carved wood. marble,
terra-cotta. stone, Renaissance bronzes,
ancient bronzes, enamels. silver, ma
jolica and ancient jewelry. S4,666,365;
! Roman and Byzantine jewelry. carv-
ings in wood and ivory, 81 l.l35,70
Among the watches. of which there
are several dozen. is one valued at
$4,000. 1t is small timepiece. COW
cred with pearls. the numerals of the
dial also formed OF pearls. To the
small chain is attached watch key
covered with pearls for using the watch
as pendant. Another watch. valued
at $4,000, is in the form of a mandolin
and is covered with diamonds. Many
of the watches were made in the six
teenth century and are of French,
Italian, German and English handi-
hcraft.
In the list Of jewelry is an enamelled
gold reliquary Of the Virgin of the
Immaculate Conception, valued at
$1,000. and an enamelled gold pendant,
a mermaid with body formed Of rope
pearl, valued at $4,000. A crystal
shrine representing the Crucifxion is
appraised at $4,000.
Porcelains of Great Value.
Mr.. Morgan had many wonderful
works of art in his home. One of
these, valued at $4,000, is a five piece
ruby red garniture of TEACHING porce-
lain, Yung Ching period A pair of
Majolica porcelain vases. with decora-
tions Of Biblical subjects, were listed
at $40 900.
In Mr.. Morgan's dining room were
several fine paintings, among them
"Cows at the Pool" by James Stark,
$4,000, and practice Hour" by Jo-
seph Israels, $4,000. A large English
tankard is valued at $4,000, a Persian
carpet at $4,000 and a seventeenth
century Feraghan rug at $4,000. A
panel oil painting by d. Ghirlandaio is
appraised at $4,000. Another panel.
Offering OF Three Kings" by Bartolo-
meo Vivarini had a valuation of Sl5.-
900. A shah's dagger. the handle set
with diamonds, is put down at $4,000.
Perhaps the most unexpected thing in
the entire appraisal of the vast estate
of Mr.. Morgan was the large group OF
"cats and dogs" which the great finsn-
cier carried. Even a man of his astute-
ness in financial affairs acquired many
thousand shares of stocks and bonds
that had no value-at least they were
without any market value at the time
Of his death, and were so entered in
the official appraisement. His pur-
chase of these was one of Mr.. Morgan's
forms of charity. He took the securi-
ties to help his friends, perhaps never
expecting to realize anything on them.
As his son, J. p. Morgan, said, THE
stuff was not worth anything. He
simply took it to help people out when
they came to him with it."
The list Of Mr.. Morgan's manu-
scripts follows:
Robert Louis Stevenson. original manu-
script "Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde" $4,000.
Lord Alfred Tennyson, original manuscript
The Brook. $1,000
William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity
Fair" original first thirteen chapters, except
Chapter T. $4,000. -.
William Makepeace Thackeray, The Vir-
ginisns." $4,000.
Horace Wapole. correspondence, $4,000.
Signers of Declaration OF Independence,
complete set Of autograph letters, $4,000.
Another set Of same. $4,000
Original draft of Cornwslliss capitulation
at Yorktown, $1,000.
Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol" $685.
600
Dickenss The Battle Of Life" $1,000.
Dickens's autograph letters. $4,000
Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone." $3.50.
John Keats will. $4,000.
Keats's "Endymion." $4,000.
Lord Lytton, Last Days Of Pompeii.'
81. 900.
ways" $500.
Autograph letters Of Pope, Gray, Congreve
and others, $500.
Walter SCOTS journal, $1,000.
scotts Lady Of the Lake. 5000.
Scott's Guy Mannering." $1,000.
Scott's The Monastery" $1,000.
SCOTS "Waverley'' and "Ivsnhoe," $4,000.
William Makepeaee Thackeray. The Brook
field Correspondence" 1000.
George Washington. thirty-hve letters.
twenty-six unpublished. with war maps,
Charles Reade. Hard Cash" $1,000.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven" lmanu-
uscript Of eleventh stanza) and correction Tor
tenth stanza. $1,000.
$4,000. i,
tion. 1873, $1,000.
D. Foe. Robinson Cr,soe." first second.
third and fourth editions. sl.eOo.
Shakespeare. comedies, histories ana trag-
edies, first edition. $4,000.
GRAY. "Elegy in Country Churchyard."
MoEeres works. with original drawings.
1773 $40 900.
Gutenberg Bible first edition. first issue.
Bible, vulgate version. first Bible with
date. 1852. $4,000. 49,.
Boswell. Life of Johnson" first edition.
London 1891. 2 volumes, $1,000.
Boswell. Letters. $4,000. 49,.
Cervantes. Don ouxote" first edition.
first issue. i6O5. l.4O0.
Boethius. DE Consolatione Philosophia"
SESSIONS ses.o. Game Game of Chess" second edition
'0e Ie Feyre. 'Recuyell Of the Historyes of
Troye" (Caxton). $4,000.
Mallory. "Morte dArthur" (CaNton),
Suso. "LOrloge de Sapience." FIST edition
(Anthoine Vorardl. 10000. .
Bbha Pauperum, third edition, lfoo'
$4,000. 49,,
+. A. Poe, Murders in the Rue Morgue
e,d The Man That Was Used Up" first
edition. Philadelphia. ls4S. $4,000
Bonds of No Value.
In the Morgan holding of securities
classed as worthless were 1000 IN
bonds of the Quincy, Missouri & Pa
cifc Railway Company. The executors