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Prof. A. Chatain
Chicago.    -2-   Mar.16.22

private address: 
Our No. 873/4281.- One box-wood arm-chair
Our No. 1355/4951.- Set of furniture Beauvais by Casanova
Our No. 750/6669.- Piece of Renaissance furniture
Our No. 1337a/4165a.- Venetian bronze by Colonna.

The price of the 8 box-wood arm-chairs is Frs. 270.000. It is awfully cheap but we want Mr. Stout to have them. They will be wonderful in the first hall; they were make towards 1660. They are the only chairs in box-wood which we have seen in our lifetime. There are 8 arm-chairs which, when in the room, look similar in general shape, though there is not one like the other. Our senior partner, Mr. Jacques Seligmann, whom Mr. Stout has met in Chicago, bought those chairs in Scotland and they came from the library of Lady Ashburton. They are Italian work, and we do not exxagerate when we say that they are unique. They have an enormous advantage, that they are very comfortable, and they are really genuine works of art. We are only sending you one to give Mr. Stout and idea, and if one pleases him, we are ready to send the others. If Mr. and Mrs. Stout want to buy only 4 or 5, they can figure out themselves how much the pro-rata is. We are ready to do anything to please him, but it would be a pity to separate the set because it is unique, and give thus to another man the right to possess one of the chairs.

Now about the little set of furniture, Louis XVIth period, we are sending you the whole set, the little sofa and 6 arm-chairs. This set is in the most wonderful condition, the tapestry without any repair, the frames genuine of the epoch of Louis XVI. The set comes from the Richard Wallace collection and has never been in trade or in public sale. When Richard Wallace died, he left the whole of his London estate in England, and they made out of his estate the