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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1953.
Guarding Against Coronation Risks
INS
【NSURANCE brokers throughout Britain have been inundated with. In- quiries on insurance mat- ters relating to the June Coronation of Queen Eliza- beth, and their cheerful reply has been: "We will insure. practically any- thing." This will be at seven and half percent, or 19. Gd. in the pound on average risks.
All concerned hope for a happy Coronation for the Queen and that, unforeseen circumstances will not arise and affect the Coronation In any way, but such posiblities, as do exist have to be faced by those who have hance and other things nt stake.
Many people still remeNVET when Khuz Edwardi
VII was token hi with an appendix shortly beture he was to be owned, so that his Coronation ad to be postponed from June 20, 1002, untu the following August. The King's rapid re- covery made the postponement of but short duration, but it was afficlent to ruin many of those providers who bad fafied, to in- sure againg possible riskis.
WORLD'S MARKET Though his Coronation lind not been fixed, there were others who had built up large stucks of souvenirs in preporation for the crowning of King Edward VII. His abdication was a great flumok blow to the many who had not covered themselves by Huurance.
ironce against podbie
EVANS & MARINE B
BOAT GUILDES
"Samo old thing every Sunday after the Boat-race-'Please, Mr. Evans, can you got my boy's 'oad out of your fence?'"
London Express Service
QUEEN MARY'S TREASURES
THE Royal mistress
T
queathed to
the Queen,
has gone. In six SHE DUSTED EVERY OBJECT IN HER n. Mother and
twilit rooms behind-
the lowered blinds
This year has seen the placing of Marlborough House on many manufacturers this day of mourning, her
risk with of ouvenirs, hotel proprietors, treasures remain. Some are theatre ticket agencies, printers
and stationers and host of con- in glass-fronted showcases Cooke at the age of 17 la his
19
providing
the
Queen
on
Mary's surviving children, IL may be that others are car- marked for the English Royal
in Collections proper,
which case they will probably be public view.che day at Wind- Queen Mary's for Custle. Queen Mary was al- ways mindful of public collec- Strel fender adorned, by tions and museums, lending and
with Elving generously from Queen Mary's command, the brass harness bearings of her treasures, her grandparents.
tomo mother.
from
ASTONISHING £250,000 COLLECTION
-By- FRANCIS MARTIN
varicus with mirrors at the back so spare time (over two the
years) nevessities for public entertain- that the contents, whether when apprenticed in the watch ment during the Coronation jade amulets
carved rade. Completed in 1877. The original belonged to his grand-
or
fustivities. There are loed au- thorities who are already sub-crystal, can be viewed fore mother." stanually covered in respect of and aft. Others are
Occasionally Queen Mary sub- their costly street decorations double-doured collectors' luckled highly technical mki Bunting and presents to
holar, as are many organisers cabinets with nesta
outdoor festivities.
drawers inside.
Lloyd's, in Leadenhall Street, London, the Insurance
market
cyclists
in
of. Jeets
us witness the 43rd entry Volume II: "Spherical clock by Staples
are recorded in Britain. This is
among
Any general break-up or dis- Baby's rattle of coral and persal would be keenly regret. chased gold, hung with little ted by all with a feeling for golden bells, a whistle at one craftsmanship and the great end of it, which Queen Mary. Georgian period. played with in 1870 when aged three and known as
May.
iri
be
to
the
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ROBERT TAYLOR DEBORAH KERR LEO: GENN and PETER USTINOV
of London, showing day of the George III, whose features are
Princess Marlborough House Is no The range is rich and un- week, day of the month, moon's variously cast In
brass, en- rivalled. There are gold and age; and
museum, The Queen sited her place for all the world, is ready tortoiseshell snuff boxes, paint mechanical action at the back, and caryed in Ivory...
ploying music by graved on gold, moulded in wax to cover all the triumphs and ed fans, earl-rimmed watches in
Fink agate elephant with ruby showcases alid cabinets so tact disasters of Coronation Year.
pierced gold case
WA. Bracelet made out of four cres, gift of the all-fated Tearfully and it so many rooms that Its 3,00 underwriters are pre-wth diamond studded hands, jewelled surround. Thirty-hour
miniature Chinese trees paring to cover
with mevement. a and Teorina of Russia. Model the place never lost its lived- ment of the event of a flat rute
at a fat rate Bowers in Jude, Ivory or pink hour, ent. Plays a lune each ropes of pearls hac gold flap of Russian imperial crown mate in look. But would is not
most notable of 17.10% per £100.
erygial and powdered coral for peated at will
a young man within the reg of gold set with diamonds, be possible, after an interval, by touching earth.
of tiny: Wiamonds queathed by the Empress Mane concentrate the spring at the bottom
lation border of the
pieces in the ground-door salon "THE ROOM” Át the same
Gold bracelet diamond-and- and open the display to There is a crystal model of case. The opening at the back This, notes the catalogue, is the of Russia, who died in 1928,
trinket which George sont to time through Taj Mahal. There 9 1 tiny Chows a figure of which the
Kaiser of some good cause? Such en The end of every last performance will not be later than "The Room," the nere of cream marble of gold violla in silver case. There head, body and legs are all Germany as a betrothal it for capphire studded gift of Bri- public for a week or two in ald
Lloyd's under-s
miniature act would be immensely popu- 11.45 p.m. Tram services of cast & wost directions Louis XVI scent bottle varied according to the revolu- his future bride Princess Char- taina future focman, writers there will hear the daily which, if you touch a concealed tion of three concentric discs. lotte of Mecklenburg. It was Wilhelm 11, whose
precious lar.
aro available. drone of The Caller's Voice bid-spring, plays a musicut box Two clockmakers named Staples bequeathed to Queen Mary by portrait, framed
Wilhelm Qucen Victoria.
Another of stones, is attached. ting
them to the business of tune.
her made this present in May 1901 insuring cricketers 4gainst ruin, In 60 years Queen Mary probably Richard Staples, who Queen Victoria's gifts is
present speedway
.Duke of Gloucester. and to bought or had given to her in 1684 was opprenticed to 1. autograph, Victoria RI, in the us godfather to the against accident, or aguinst
Bowl Exquisite cloisonne goller
holing
nearly 2,000 bibelols and objets Jones in Londer.. Purchased in form of a diamond brooch. one and d'art, to out in
There are reliquaries with (that is, of enamel and divided use dealers' Jargon. 1933, having to buy drinks round ut Most are
royal hair by the drawerful into compartments) given to of precious metals. the 19th. although the Royal jewel bearing and of
Chinese by the here a snipping from George IV Queen Mary -mul-Ancient-have-warned-all craftsmanship. Often they have
when four years old, there 2 Prince Tsal Chen în 1911 four concerned that such a policy im- royal and other historical links
curl from Queen Mary's mother, months before His dynasty was rils golfers amateur status.
when dethroned and China became a which make them more precious
Princess Mary of Teck she was three, Augustus Duke republic. to her when the married
IIF's Glxth in ot Sussex, George
hair 1893. In the decades that tol- con is perpetuated by a lowed, other gifts came from bracelet clasped by
pansy and and made of amethyst, topaz husband, her children, ge
The variety of Ital in heart duchesses, barons,
A gold-mounted bankers, fold. value of the Marlborough House eminent fellow collectors. fashioned in crystal contains astonishing. But the collections collections at over £250,000.
tocks from
III's six are not a jumble. While still George The present Duke of Wind- daughters, the princesses Mary, & youngish woman, Queen Mary pert in charge of all this wealth. tor bought his mother a Queen Mary was her own cura enamel pencil case studded with Sophin, Amelia, Charlotte, Au- systematised her treasures. Her tor, often did her own dusting.
was Eusta. Elizabeth, tiny diamonds when he
pl
In quoting against ralb stop-stil.
cricket play, Lloyd's de-
mand higher premiums against the skies of Lancashire” and Glamorgun than against those of Kent. Denis Compton will subject of anal SOR be the insurance, but is troublesome kare will be included.
Whilst underwriters are now busy Irauring lest pilots against the Sound Barrier
not
Private edition
Cautious computers put
rare
Started in 1893 The foundation of Queen Mary's collections was a win nowing out of gifts which came
the her
There has never been any ex-
pink
a
In keeping Also she composed and wrote a seven; a portrait of Edward VII White twist
each articlo,
with the tines, others in on the label for
then in gold frame (again set with floor beneath
The Room will maintain the conservative tradi-transcribed the labels into Ave tiny diamonds) when he
be
WAS
No jumble
་
first catalogue, listing and u frating over 800 pieces, completed at the end of 1920.
was
It groups her acquisitions under 31 headings, from ormolu and 11; and an agate paper knife Not all the nippings are gilt to amber and lacquer, from tions of Lloyd's by stil describ- bulky manuscript catalogues.
locket Battersea enamels, to patch ing ships captains as "the mas-have been printed in a
All but one of these volumes with rubies in its gold handle royal. There is a gold
with a white twist cut from the boxes and smelling bottles. ter under God." The ships, on edition of six copies, with ap-
private when he was 15.
For
in Duke of Wellington as he lay
shrewd She almed, through 75th birthday Lloyd's, policies, continue to
For her
en his deathbed in 1852. In buying, as well as through gifts. "good ships," and are Insured propriate photographs opposite 1942, the Duke of Kent sent at the drawer alongside is the tox from discriminating relatives
all the entries.
antique toothpick case in blue against Men of War, Piratess,
toiseshell telescope, two and 。 and friends who shared her ch- Rovers, Jettisons, Letters
Here is a sample entry which enamel with ivory and of
Dear!
Lady thuslasms, at building up each Mart and Counter Mart, Sur- reflects the Queen's sturdy up-
months half inches long, which ornamentation.
Three
until It became ot industry
the later he was killed in on RAF Hamilton gave to Lord Nelson. collection in prisais Taking at Sea, Arrests, proval
aeroplane crash. "His last gift to young:
Not far away, in bewildering balanced and thoroughly repre Restraints, Detainments; of all
sentative, Vie his mother," noted the Queen, contrast, are: Kings, Princes and People,
"Miniature copy of a torian lady's workbox in brass,
What is going to happen now? Miniature portraits of royal- Two gold men, an inch or so with burnished ly date back to the early Hang- high, driving four gott pigs and The speculation is that select-
have been Made by Henry verians, with the emphasis on feeding four gold hens. These ed treasures
J. W. Taylor steelwork.
heavily gilt
Peace? Well... just keep your
London..
INTERNATIONAL
stockmarket reactions
end of 1952,
Chou
By PATRICK MAITLAND, M.P.
port railway reaching half the way
Last September,
En-lai went to In recent weeks there
of
fingers crossed!
be-
Vindivostok la one of the main for the Korean supply centres front. Like' Antung, it is linked with North Korea by voll all the way.
fortnight
to Mr Chou En-lai, the which, under
This is the Chinese
From Vladivostok come hinta the Sino-Soviet from Port Arthur to Antung, that this, too, could be so. For Chinese Prime Minister, re- Alliance of 1950, Russia con the nearest point in China to the Military Commander there fleet rather the delicacy of tinued to occupy but promised Korea Proper, is being com- has issued new and strict re- It appears to match the fore- the
present armaments to evacuate not later than the pleted.
minders to the public. to beware going that since mid-February
On the morning of boom than a sober con- when
OT pics.
Rodio some hundreds of Chinese rall- has March 21, Vladivostok Science in the highest Moscow, he invited the Soviet been frosis news, Thousands of called for strict revolutionary way men have been drafted up political gaurters that for to stay, because the Chinese fishermen dwailing vigilance," especially in view of to Korea. More than a hundred coastline and exposed "left Shanghai and Hangehow. In Port the tong China now means genuine United States has not yet aban- along the coast
near to
pressed to frontier close by.
the first
of March. doned her aggressive designs Arthur have been
73 left Sian for Korea in against China."
help unload quantiles of fresh
bruary
···supplies for the Russian- forces
The figure of 857 is For while the nows that That excuse need not be, dis- there which have been arriving
given for departures from the Premier Chou ́En-lat had made mised as unlikely or unreal. It by sea. This information reached A significant detail was, the Changchow Railway Adminis a new and useful proposal to it proper to assunte that the London from trusted sources. rominter to Vladivostok citizens iration in two groups in Febru neile, the problem of prisoners, other alde, at some level; senses
that "the enemy" were specially ary, Another 207 left Shanghai #menace, and fears the, inith- The term "Thousands”” may be, interested in the personal docu- in February also, of war in Korea as a step to an e, in politler or force should significant here. For a volume of meats of Russian subjects, such armigalees was welcome .to
pas to the Western Powers. supplies, the unloading of which as passports and Identification Such is the drift of reports Whitehall, Information of a'
needs the sudden recruitment of papera." Recently
there had being analysed in Whitehall wholly different quality whs
"thousands”; af mica," "
must be been quite en, epidemie, of such which raian, about
Inten also reaching the Foreign Office,
considembio. The query urlaer, thefts, They were sought, of Premier Chou But since September, the Rus Inevitably as to whether this course, by enemy spies and the tions. But it is of course, Thero important evidence, as force have not only staged poreshadows any Russian inter- implation was clear that some natural to a diplomacy it forge, of a renewal, rather than A. en at Port Arthur. They have vention in Korea, with a con- had penetrated the city, Then even on the eve of a subrian- slackening of military prepara, been working to expand the tribution of ground troops in ade a day or two later a local paper, tial, and hardly wrought conten- tlon upon the Russian and base in a way which appears to dillon to the aerial support and Krasnoyn Zoeya, Kound two sion, to build up military power Chinone side. Port Arthur is a presage. -øven more extensivo
known already,
'case in "pointegrams; asiat soviel Träbida Ugn. An anidilket vision of suppilos・ that, are in her, costians to repeat, the ja reģions close to the thestro of
warning.
appeasement,
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