Evening star., 1934-01-07
MCCORMICK SALE
BRINGS $33O,617
Auction OF New York Treas.
ures Ends-Chicago Homes
to Go On Block.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, January 6.-Having
drawn larger crowd than any other
auction on record, the sale OF the
ornate art treasures of Mrs. Edith
Rockefeller Mccormick ended today
with a grand total of $5S0,6l7 for her
estate
Beginning January 16 the contents
of Mrs. McCormick's Lake Shore drive
mansion in Chicago and her villa at
Lake Forest, Ill, will be placed on sale
on the premises. Though laceS, tapes
tries, silver and antique furniture have
been going under the hammer here for
five days, the auctioneer announced
that the Chicago home was still "prac-
tically intact"
Mrs. McCormick's daughter Muriel,
the wife of Mai. Elisha Dyer Hubbard
of Middletown, Conn, will go to Chi
cago for the sale. She has attended
every day of the auction in New York
and has bought heavily of her mothers
belongings.
Large Crowd Present.
Today was one of the biggest days,
the auction room being jammed with
standees at the back just like the opera
and at the door a milling crowd un-
able to get in. Fur-coated women
brought their lorgnettes and dogs and
waved greetings to one another across
the rows of seats.
The only difference was that today
they wore their other fur coats One
OF them explained that because it was
q warm day. the mink garments that
have filled the auction room through
the week had been left at home.
A slightly bizarre figure in the crowd
was Edward Krenn, the Swiss architect,
who was Mrs. McCormick's constant
escort in Chicago. A stocky, blond
man, he wore spats, diamond and onyx
cuff links as big as his thumb, and an
enormous gray pearl in a bright red tie.
He sat down four rows behind Muriel
Mccormick Hubbard, fixed her with his
eye, sat there for short time, and then
moved to seat farther back. 1t had
been reported that he was interested in
some of the bronzes, but he bought
nothing.
Relatives Watch Sale.
More Mccormick relatives were pres
ent, and very mild sensation was reg
istered when a cousin OF the HuoDaroS
was found among the reporters. Mrs.
Hubbard, who wore her mink in spite of
everything, was in her usual front row
seat with her brother-ln-laW, Louis de
Koven Hubbard.
Today's sales, which were OF valuable
tapestries, old English silver and old
French furniture, brought in $105, OBS.
The two highest sales we're to the Hub
bards, who paid $500 each for two
rare Gothic hunting tapestries OF the
sixteenth century.
The Art Institute of Chicago bought
another Gothic tapestry OF the same
period for s5,400. An agent for a pri-
vate buyer paid $4,000 for landscape
by Corot, and Ralph M. CHAT bought
for $4,000 a gilded Chinese temple
statue for which the auctioneer said Mrs.
Mccormick paid around $4,000. The
Hubbards also bid for this, but dropped
out just before the highest figure was
reached.
Daughter Buys Heavily.
To Mrs. McCormick's daughter DID
10, however, q very rare silver "cauoie
or posset cup" of the CromWelllan pc,
Yiod. for $4,000, and an important
pair of George III silver wine coolers
Tor 50 900. She also paid 81 900 for an
Aubusson silk tapestry screen, Sl,02o
for French 'canape sofa TO tne
simple-and S1,02O for IL George III
silver plates.
One more tapestry at $2,10o rounded
out her purchases. %
Other high sales were 81 ,S2U lot IL
George Il silver plates, 10 an agent,
q 100 for a carved coral statuette TO
r. Duke; $4,000 for a bronze Buddna 10
Miss r. H. Foote; S2,700 and 81 ,o0O,
respectively, for two antique tapestries
sold TO dealers, and S2,250 for a klrman
palace carpet" to an agent 1or a
pYivate buyer.
The auctioneers reported that 1000
more persons had attended than in the
ease Of any previous sale. Included IN
the prosperous crowd today were MRS.
ogden Mills. wife of the former Secre-
tary of the Treasury; Anthony j.
prexel, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w. Gould,
Mrs. Walter Chrysler and her son, Wal
ter, jr., and David Warfield, the actor.
Mr., Warfeld marched home with
1890 silver salver under his arm.