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Negotiations with De Leuw-Cather and Associates (presently consulting on the Master Plan parking and traffic design) will be undertaken shortly to furnish design modifications and specifications which will serve as bid documents for a contract which could be let in the fall of 1972, immediately after the heavy visitation season.

This time schedule would permit the inauguration of fee collection in the winter, late 1972 or early 1973.

Cooper-Hewitt Museum

In October 1968, the Advisory Board of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum approved the purchase, for $75,000, of a collection of 181 pieces of mid-19th century jewelry. It was the intention of the Advisory Board that a few select pieces be retained for the Museum's collection, and that the remaining pieces be sold in order to recoup all or most of the purchase price. The Director of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, with the approval of the Advisory Board and the Smithsonian Office of the General Counsel, now proposed that approximately 150 pieces from that collection be offered for sale at public auction by Christie's. These pieces should bring a minimum of $75,000.

It is also proposed that a modern diamond bracelet, which was given to the Cooper-Hewitt Museum a year ago expressly for sale, be included in the auction. Christie's estimates that this bracelet will bring between $40,000 and $50,000.