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C CT/TP

January 22nd., 1926.

Mrs. Theodore Cooke,
c/o C. M. Cooke, Ltd.,
Honolulu Hawaii.

Dear Mrs Cooke:

Although I have not had the pleasure of seeing you for quite some time, I am writing you this letter to tell you that we are shortly leaving our present galleries and there are several things here which we may not have room for in our new premises and which we would prefer not to take the risk of shipping back to Paris. Under these circumstances we would be prepared to let these pieces go at a very reduced price, provided they were taken from our present galleries before the 30th. of April.

Among these items is a very beautiful pair of Eighteenth Century carved stone vases measuring 50 in. high. They come from the Chateau Sainte-Croix, near Bruges, which was bombarded and afterward plundered by the Germans during the World War. They would make very fine ornaments for a large entrance hall or could be used in a garden. We would be willing to dispose of them at Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.) the pair, which is about half the price we were originally asking.

I am herewith enclosing you a photograph of them and if you feel that you could use them I would ask you to kindly let me hear from you by return mail, or else cable us, as, as I have already told you, they will have to be taken from our present premises before we leave.

Awaiting the favor of your reply,

Yours very truly,

JACQUES SELIGMANN & CO., Inc.

By,

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. The "a" in paragraph 2 was erased (this is a carbon copy)