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Cable Address: GLAESTARK TELEPHONE: PLAZA 5874 PARIS 57 RUE ST. DOMINIQUE (Ancien Hôtel Sagan) London, W. 12 OLD BURLINGTON STREET WJ Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc. 705 Fifth Avenue New York Mr. Joseph Satinover 27 West 56th Street New York New York, October 17, 1922 NY1650 P7307 A painting French School 18th century, by Nattier (Jean-Marc 1685-1766) signed and dated 1751. Portrait of Madame Zephyrine de France, as a child. She is clad in white, seated on a cushion, near her is her favorite dog. Collection of Lady Falle, Piccadilly, London. Former collection of Baron de Robeck, deputy of County Kildare (Ireland), son of the 4th baron, born in 1859. NET $5.000 (Five Thousand Dollars Net) 1922 Nov. 2 By Checks $4.200 Balance due, Cash ....... $800
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The good Lady Falle apparently purchased a peerage for her baronet husband for £50,000 with her family money made from opium trading.
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