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February 8, 1951

Dear Mr. Esptein:

Pursuant to our telephone conversations you will make the necessary arrangements to take delivery of a case next Wednesday, February 14, 1951 at Brown Warehouse Co., 415 East 54 Street, New York, N.Y., for shipment to Milan, Italy via Genova per "SS Newbury Victory", leaving New York on February 17, 1951 as per details here below:

Contents of case: Painting by Picasso "Man with Mandolin" and Painting by Braque "Duo pour Flute"
Value for shipping purposes: $1,500. - (FIFTEEN HUNDRED AND 00/100 DOLLARS)
Markings on case: J.R.No.1
Name of shipper: Mrs. Josephine Ricciardi, 102 Overbough Lane, Saugerties, New York

Name of receiver: Dr. Robert Ricciardi, Viale Regina Margherita 38, Milan, Italy

to whom all shipping papers have to be mailed.

Please note that all your expenses as well as the freight, and in addition the cost of packing this shipment which will be communicated to you by Brown's Warehouse Co., will have to be collected forward.

[[underlined]]It is of the utmost importance for purposes of this despatch that the name of our firm does not figure on any of the papers you have to establish in this respect, nor in any letter you may have to write to Italy in this connection.[[/underlined]]

Thanking you for your attention to the above,

Sincerely yours,
Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc.

(O.A. Liecthi)

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Mr. B. Epstein
Bemo Shipping Co.
28 Beaver Street,
New York, N. Y.