New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
Rare Old English
Silver of London
Collector Exhibited
View Precedes Sale at Ander-
son Galleries; Oriental
Carpet Purchased by Deal
er at Auction for SIS, 300

A collection of rare old English sill
yer to be sold next Saturday afternoon
Is on view at the Anderson Galleries.
The show, which represents the proper
ty of a London collector, is made uD
chiefly Of genuine antique pieces of
the Georgian period There are also
handsome examples of Sheffield plate
and few miscellaneous pieces of Bo-
hemian glass and Japanese ivory.
Among the articles are spoons, cups,
trays, tea sets and cake and fruit
Prices ran low at the second days
session of the sale of Americana at
these galleries yesterday afternoon.
The sale closed with a total of only
1881. 80. 1t will be completed this
afternoon
A sale of association books and man
uscripts from the collection formed by
George s. Hellman. A. NJ, began at the
Anderson Galleries last evening. The
top. price, $1,000, was paid by G. D.
Smith for letter by Robert Browning
to his brother, Reuben, written in Ven
ice in June, 1850, in which he explains
his financial difficulties while travel
ing, due to lack Of credit. f. R. Car
ter gave 900 for collection of un-
publlshed manuscripts by Lord Byron.
Other high prices were for manu-
script volume containing portions of
Colerdge's "Magnum Opus" G. D.
Smith, $40; a set Of inscribed copies
OF writings by John Fiske, $3O5; the
sketch book of William and Robert
Blake, G. D. Smith, s625. The total for
the evening was $9,SS0. The sale will
be completed this evening.
The oil poiptjDnc b, y,l
which will remain on exhibition at the
Touchstone Galleries, IL West Forty
seventh Street, until next Sunday, rep
resent studies in types. There are a
Mexican sea captain, a Chinese woman,
Japanese boy, Indian girls. Per-
haps Miss Stohr is an internationalist.
At any rate, she has succeeded remark
ably we'll in bringing out salient phvsi-
cal features of the races she has stud
led. lnterspersed with the portraits
arc pictures Of an entirely different
Early Spring on the whole, the
work revealed in the portraits is more
telling.
The Federation Settlement announces
the opening of an art school for bows
and girls, and men and women at its
building, 240 East 1O5th Street. viii
liam Meyerowitz, the artist is in
charge.
Clarke's, West Forty~fourth Street,
announces an exhibition of antique fur
niture and art objects from the col
lection of c. NJ. Travers Company be-
ginning Thanksgiving Day. The items
viii cover all periods of design from
Gothic to Sheraton. They will be sold
December 3, d. 5 and 6.
Two important sales were held yes-
terday at the American Art Galleries.
a collection of 100 Oriental rugs and
carpets brought total of S3O,025 In
divdual pieces went at 81 1,01O, $3,5OO.
feature of the sale was the auctioning
of grand carpet % feet long, which
was bought by Baliozian Brothers
for $500.
The total for the afternoons sale Of
house furnishings was $6,957.50. Lans
Company, Mrs. II. Bauer and Mrs. Guy
Currier were among the buyers 1t was
the second day of the sale, which will
be completed this afternoon. The
grand total SO far is $1S,504.50.
Art objects, including paintings,
bronzes and marble statuary, period
furniture and other effects, the prop
erty of the late Anna Held and also
Robert Edeson, are on exhibition at the
Broadway Art Galleries, 1862 Broad
way. They will be sold at auction next
Tuesday.
One of the important pieces of
statuary is Mercie's GLORY to the
Vanquishcd," and another is marble
Venus from the studio of Andreoni, of
Rome. A royal Sevres vase depicts
Napoleon's return after the battle of
Austcrlitz. A royal and bronze salon
table has a portrait of Louis XVI
dressed in royal robes in its center,
surrounded by a circle Of twenty medal
lions, each representing a beauty of
his court. Other items are a Queen
Anne silver service of PTS pieces, a
Louis XVI drawing room suite in Au-
busson tapestry, a collection of ivory
and Limoges enamel miniatures, a Marie
Antoinette bedroom suite of white ma
hogany and also few of the stage
costumes worn by Miss Held