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TELEPHONE: 23739
TELEGRAMS: VITRONCO

CODES: A.B.C. 6TH EDN
RUDOLF MOSSE CODE

MANAGING DIRECTOR: S.S.CRAMER
DIRECTOR: T.A. WALLACE

Vitron Products Ltd
8 MARKET STREET
LEICESTER

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9 Winborne Rd.-
Southport-

5th May, 1948.

M/s. Jacques Seligmann & Co.Inc.
5 East 57th Street,
New York 22.

Dear Mr. Seligmann,

I received your letter of the 1st inst. contents of which I have carefully noted.

As I am writing this letter in Southport, where I have another office, I have, of course, not the details of the pictures (re: numbers) with me.

Regarding your request in respect of a six months option I must say, that although I am quite willing to give you every support in achieving your aim, I do not wish to be bound without any equivalent. However, I am prepared to give you the pictures on hand UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, and that I will this withdraw only by Registered letter (if possible by Airmail) with forty days notice from the date of dispatch of the Registered letter. You & your clients will therefore be in a position to make the final decision within a month's time, after receipt of such letter. 

And now I will give some details regarding the pictures. 
a) they are ALL painted in grisail, (only the Sevuot is slightly coloured,) because  at the time when Prof.Oppenheim painted these pictures the reproduction of coloured paintings was not yet known. If, therefore, you have the book with the reproductions then you have the wanted photographs of the originals, although these have, of course, darkened during the 70-80 years of their existence.
b) ALL pictures are signed as you will see from the reproductions, which also show that Oppenheim put the year of completion on every picture.
c) It was NOT the artist's intention to relieve the pictures ultimately with colour. Several of the motifs have also been painted in colour, but my pictures are the originals from which the well known reproductions have been made.
d) The right of reproduction had been acquired by the "Verlag Heinrich Keller" being later in the possession of the Kunsthandlung Schneider, Rossmarkt, Frankfurt a/M. from which my father acquired these pictures. In case of sale I undertake to supply a photocopy of the invoice, which is still in my possession.

p.t.o.