HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1931.
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LAMMERTS AUCTIONS
PREMISES TO LET.
FLATS.
LET. PRINCE EDWARD
TROAD, KOWLOOT. 14 Boomed
FLAT with All Modem Conveniences add Garage - Apply to: OREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME-ORIENT 4th floor, FaExon BANK BUILDING. (198
To
LET In Kowloon, immediate possession Near Star Ferry In Cool and Quiet Locality, Furnished and Unfurnished European FLATS with all Moderu Accomodation nud Flash. Thorough for
renovated. Rent very Mo 'dorate, Also Immediate possession, Flat of Two Rooms, Farnished or Unfurnished, in Palace Hotel Building. with Two Bathrooms Kitchen, etc.-. Apply to H. RUTTONJEE, A, Har PHONG ROAD, KOWLOON, TEL. 57230:
To
Let-3-Roomed FLATS, No, 28, GROUND FLOOR, 26 and 27, SECOND FLOOR, ASHLEY ROAD.. KOWLOON, with Sanitary Fittings and Flush-Apply BAKILLY Co. Prosz 22605.
TTRACTIVE" Two Roomed ATTRACT NATHAN ROAD, Near BTAK FERRY. All Modern Con- veniences. Vary Moderate Rentals Apply HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD. ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
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HOUSES.
LET-BOUNDARY STREET,
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Dancing
"My dear your house is s simply charming, but you really should have a car, it's an awful trail by bus."
"Bill says afford one."
we
can't possibly
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ING, KOWLOON.
ACADEMY, D, TORRES BUILD- TELEPHONE 57117. 10 LET.-8. CAINE ROAD,OOK
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- PRIVATE HOTELS.
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STORE).
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KING &
BOOK THIEVES SYNDICATE.
ANGLO-AMERICAN COMBINATION?
and
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received
Instructions
TO BELL DT
PUBLIC AUCTION:
ON
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1931,
COMMENCING AT 2.30 PM.
AT, THEIR SALES ROOM, + Duddell Bracer,
AQUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Comprising
and and
Chesterfeld Couches Armchairs, Gramophones Records. Bookcases, Desks, Office Chairs, Carpets and Ruge, Cabinets, luin Ware, Pictures, etc., etc. Uabin and Wardrobe Yunks, Porce--
collectora English book dealers are intensely interested in the news from New York of the arrest of an alleged expert book, thief named Dr. Harold Clarke, and the statement that he is linked Teak Extension Dining Tables, with an organisation systematical-Dining Chairs; Bideboards with' y engaged in felonies of this kind. Bevelled. Mirrors, Dressing Tables, It is added that £14,000 worth of Dinner Waggon, Chest of Drawers,
Square, Tables, etc., etc. raro books were stolen last year from New England libraries alone; and the allegation is that books thus stolen, whenever imperfect, are sent to London for missing pages to be replaced and signs of identification to be removed."
Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Iron Cat, Wash Stands, Enamelled Bath, Porcelain Wash Basins, Dinner Crockery, Glass Ware, Cutlery, Stores, Ice Chests, Cooking Utensils, Rattan Chairs, Curtains, Linen, etc.,
and
QUANTITY OF BLACKWOOD FURNITURE
Mr. Gabriel Wells, the famous Anglo-American collector, interview- ed by a representative of the Lon- don Daily Telegraph, said: "I And it hard to believe in any such or
Jose Tables, Chesta, Jardinieres, ganisation. The cult of rare books Armchairs, Marble Top Round
Including
is so well defined, and the oppor-Table, Tea Poys, etc., etc., tunities for robbery are so few, "that such an organisation could not live. "It is different with tho forging of rare manuscripts and letters, and there are parts, of Europe where this is practised with great
Ox View From MONDAY, the
** 20TH JULY, 1991,
skill. I had a Shaw manuscript TERMS:CASH ON DELIVERY. offered to me some time ago, but when I showed it to Mr. Shaw ho said: This man, doesn't know his business. I never wrote in blue ink in my life. Otherwise the veri
similitude was perfect.
Ochectors Loyalty.
"We have to tako stricter mes-
LAMMERT BROS. AUCTIONEFRS,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
sures nowadays "to guard against. burglary, and the measures for re-HR Undersigned have received
HONGKONG HOTEL covery and conviction are helped by
GARAGE
FOR CAR HIRE
FOR HONG KOxo: 24758 FOR KOWLOON: 57874
·Printing
Instructions
TO SELL DY
COY PUBLIC AUCTION
ON
FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1991,
COMMENCING AT 10,30 AM,
the mutual loyalty of librarians. and collectors. During the war an Allied refugee stole a valuable Chaucerian manuscript from the English nobleman who was housing him, and it was sold to an American university library for nearly 21,000. But when the librarian found where it came from and what had happened, it was instantly sent back to the owner. I cite this mere: ly to show the chivalry that pre- vails among first-class collectors, and the readiness with which they combine against thievery.""
Mr. J. Harrison Stonehouse, (Full Particulars from Catalogue)
PRINTING Menu Cards, Danse manager of Sotheran's, in Piccadil
Programmes, Invitation Cards,ly, and himself a famous Dickens. Bridge Score-Write Box 657, an expert, said. "The statement that Hong Kong Daily Fress.
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imperfect books are sent over, hero to be doctored requires emendation,
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HOUSES AND APARTMENTS WANTED,
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Enclosed...
The ADVERTISEMENT MANAGER, "Hongkong Daily Press,
11, loe House Street or P.O. Box 1
Ar No. 14, SOMERSET ROAD, KOWLOON TONG
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
ON VIEW From THURSDAY, the
2ED JULY, 1981.
LAMMERT BROS.,
-AUCTIONEERS.
If it is suggested that they can be TERMS: CASH ON DELIVERY," made to deceive the best experts, this is a mistake, because they can't. Books that have had dummy title- pages, ete., supplied by apert craftsmen are indicated accordingly in the lists of all good firms, and enter into a second-class category of their own. They are never mis taken by experts for the few perfect copies of an original issue."
Offensive Imputation."
lible ink, qad, any attempt to re- move them injures the book beyond repair. Bookplates are useless, be cause these can be taken out; so the
Mr. Charles Sawyer, of Grafton-best dealers have their own privater street, part-author of the well- marks, besides the pencilled memo known manual on "English Books," randa of date and price, ste. anid=
The imputation that defective books are sent here to be madeo
"Few people have an idea of
the many operations that occur in good
is ridiculous and, to some degreo,
book hospital, where one has to
offensive. They used to be sent here, restore rare books that have, come
it is true, to have facsimile plates
through are, shipwreck, long neg
or pages made, because we had the lost in damp collars, and so on. original editions; but for the past But there is to need nowadays to half century. América has
America has been buy sand oversens for a rare edition to ing with science and enterprise, and copied, because any librarien will most of these aditions are over there | supply for a moderate cost, a pho- Honday,
Mr. George Butcliffe, the well, demired. This is part of the courtesy known book-binder, said: “Signs of of the ion, But none of the identification are paually in inde books restored would, pam the (Continued at foot of next column.) | expert,