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ARTHUR SACHS
66.RUE DE BELLECHASSE
T INVALIDES 58-28 
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October 28th 1935.

Mr. Germain Seligmann,
Germain Seligmann & Co.,
successors of Jacques Seligmann & Sons,
3 East 51st Street,
New York City.

Dear Germain,

I was sorry that I did not see you before you left for New York and have the pleasure of showing you in our apartment here how I have arranged my collection including a number of things that I always enjoyed so much purchasing from you.

Unfortunately, not having quite the space that I had in New York, there are a few things that I have either not room to place, or do not fit into the XVIIIth century and "Empire" setting that we have created. Among these are two things that I purchased from you and which I thought you might be able to dispose of for me at some time. I naturally think of you as it seems only loyal to take up a question of that kind with you

One is the "Mille Fleurs" Gothic tapestry, French, end of the XVth century, which I bought from your father in July 1922, and for which at the time I paid Frs. 189,000.- when the franc was worth about ten cents. In other words it cost my $18,000.-

The other objects are the pair of bronze andirons, XVIth century, Italian, work of Tiziano Aspelli, Venice, representing Mars and Venus, from the collection of Sir Edward Naylor-Leyland which I purchased from you in January 1925, for $5,200.-  These Andirons are too large for our fireplaces here, and therefore repose for the present in a "remise".