Evening star., 1924-11-09
SAXON ART WORKS
. ARE COMING TO us.
American Reported After
Famous Dresden JeWeIry
Collection.
BY EDGAR ANsEL MOWRER.

BY Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
DRESDEN, November Delayed.
THE generosity of the Saxon state
Will mean the fortune of American
art collectors" Thus spoke the Gus
todian Of Dresden's famous jewelry
collections in the so-called green
vault when the writer visited him
today.
There has been an American COL
weeks" he continued, land know
Heinrich, the old Kings youngest
son, who has come today to take
away the last of the objects"
He pointed to q tiny beautifully
modelled silver baptismaI fount. See
inw beautiful it is" he went on
"All the Kings of Saxony have been
'aptized from this tiny silver marvel
with water brought from the River
.Iordan,.in Palestine. And now it will
90 to America,
'Ah, Lieber herr! War is a terri
BILE thing
AT this point the door of the mu-
scum directors office opened and out
came a good looking. thicll-set young
nan-Ernst Heinrich himself The
facts are that these 2O-odd deposed
German soVoreigns have all demand
ed restitution Of their crowns and
property" and the German jurists
have had TO solve difficult legal
problem, viz; When is the Grown"
tn" sovereign and when is il the
state?
SaHOny Is Red.
Naturally the solution has been
found on q political and not on a
legal basis. Saxony is prover bially
-
erned by ocialists, who resolutely
refused to allow the royal family of
Victim anything. The Socialist ad-
mlnistration in Saxony ran counter to
the policy Of the reich, and, declaring
that Saxony was the center of dis
ORDER the reichswehr entered Sax
ony, threw out the Socialists, arrest
ed their leader, Zeigner, and installed
middle-class administration which
still governs the country
Then the house Of Victim showed
its adaptabi!ity. Realizing that Sax
ony was still red and that new cleo
tions III the Landtag would proba bly,
give majority TO the reds, the for
mer ruling house established d regis
tered assoc alton of all its members
under the title "Nerein of the House
OF Victim. Alhertine Line" and en-
tered negotiations for the restoration
10 the crown of It's property. The ne
get +ations led to d compromise, and
IN July the Saxon Landtag approved a
treaty which restored to the ex-
rulers some slight moiety of thsir
former belongings.
Includes Art Objects.
This noiety includes their lands and
castles with their pre-War value of
81, 100000 and numerous art work.
a nd jewels whose value can only be
determined if they are sold. The chief
objects are a full size carriage of
state Of bronze, &c valuabl. ivory
sculptures, complete table service of
silver and silver sacred vessels and
candle sticks for the house altar.
There are also the convocation in
Yestments and Instruments of Victim
when they were sovereignS of Pola nd
numerous silver pIatters statues.
jewels amounting to 50 pieces set
with diamonds, 20 with ruhies, 40
with emeralds and 40 with sapphires.
great unset diamonds, 157 small
pictures from the galleries Of State
generally OF the second order but in
Guiding valua Bile .Brueghel, Del Sarto.
Van Dyke and Mignon pieces, and a
huge quantity OF porcelain and DTcs-
den articles.
Already there are small gaps in the
collections, but the Dresden galleries
are so rich that these objects are
hardly missed My friend, the custo-
dian said: Really for king in a
republic, the ruler of the House of
Victim has not done badly"
fCcpyright, 1924 by Chicago Daily News Coz