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[[preprinted]] [[image - logo: drawing of man sitting and painting at an easel in front of a doorway with a crown overhead]] FRATELLI ALINARI - SOC. AN. ISTITUTO DI EDIZIONI ARTISTICHE (I. D. E. A.) FIRENZE - VIA NAZIONALE, 6 CASA FONDATA NEL 1854 - NEGOZI A FIRENZE, ROMA, NAPOLI CAPITALE SOCIALE L. 2.450.000 INTERAMENTE VERSATO TELEGR. : IDEA - FIRENZE CODE USED A B C 5th ED. TELEF. 22-105 C. C. POSTALE 5-465 C. C. I. A. N. 11771 60.000 RIPRODUZIONI FOTOGRAFICHE AD UN COLORE ED A COLORI D'OPERE D'ARTE DI OGNI EPOCA a FAC-SIMILI DI DISEGNI DI GRANDI MAESTRI a COPIE AD OLIO SU TELA [[/preprinted]] Firenze 5 October 1953 Messrs Jacques SELIGMANN & Co att. Martha Thomson New York (22) 5 East, 57th Street Dear Sirs, In reply to your favour of 30th ult., for which we th thank you, we beg to inform you that we have the photo of the Virgin and Child by Orcagna in the Camposanto di Pisa (it is a bromide print, 8x10 inches) and it costs Dollars 0,50, plus postage (one dollar in total). We do not have the photo of the Tomb of Folchino Schizzi by Bonino da Campione, at Cremona. For what concerns the reliefs by Balducci in Or San Michele at Florence, we can find no trace in the Guides of this Church of there being reliefs by Balducci. Do you mind reliefs attributed to some other sculptor? In this case please be so kind as to describe the subjects, in order to enable us to see if we have the respectove photographs. Are they the reliefs in the base of the Tabernacle: Birth of the Virgin, Presentation at the Temple, Marriage of the Virgin, Annoncuation, Nativity, Adoration of the Mzges, Presentation of Jesus, Annonce of the death of the Virgin, Hope, Faith, Charity, Death and Assumption of the Virgin ? Of each of these we have the photograph 8x10 inches, as above, at Dollars 0,50 each, plus postage. Yours very truly, [[stamped]] FRATELLI ALINARI Soc. An. I. D. E. A. IL DIRETTORE [[/stamped]] [[signed]] [[Syaiellelle]] [[/signed]] Price-list