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THE URINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY · 1954.
In The Village Of TAILOR CHEUNG
Hideaways,
Red George Is Boss
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THE REMARKABLE WAY MEN LIVE WHO HAVE FLED TO THE RUSSIANS
By RENE
MacCOLL
BERLIN. Light Infantry and he comes life in that shadowy Communist Hi namo is Bautzen. from Whitehaven, In Cumber world, Ten. ar, 12 Britons ard land. And before the court charged every year with being Never heard of it? martial even
began a scrupu- absent without leave in Nor had I until I
lously fair procese under the Russian zone. came to Berlin.. presidency of a major
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It is an across-the-Iron- Cortion Highlanders and steered
Some stay there. Most coma back. silkily
A British major, 19 Curtain town of about powered
soft-spoken Judge - Advocate-
the highest ranking man ever to 46,000 people, east of Dres-General-It almost
go East-and he is still away, Perfect Cutting den and right down in the certainty that
nover alleged We would be But it is almost Routh-eistern
the Tommies go eornér of hearing of Bautzen. And so we that any of
through that barbed-wire curtain present-day Germany, did.
becatise of ideological com- where the borders of the Russian sector, Poland, and Czechoslovakia meet.
British way
Here is Hugh Sharp's story pulston. as told in michibe-gin bursis of broad Cumberland dialect the pleaded not guilty to the charge of absenting himself without leave in May of last
Bautzen is a rather special sort of plače, You could call #1 Russian-style reception year but
3 centre.
A place where grown-up men get sent to school.
A place whero grown-up men are given pucket money.
guilly to the lesser
THE reasons are always
Der Bonal ones-usually woman trouble, or a blt of bother the British coming up with authorities. Just the reason civilians every now and then to which cause over burdened decide to disappear.
Think, then, of that _strange
Charge of "fosing by neglect some of his Army
equipment Fund
clothing), It seems that Hugh Sharp had a German Kirl friend, Ann, A place where men from the whom he planned to marry. West Britani, ilie Unlied But, he told The court, her States, and France-re
mother made
Wac none too keen little colony down there in offered Jobs,
and the match as she did not wont Bautzen, with their own club,
Anna to leave Germany to
their pocket money, and going hero in the to live in England.
to that school where they are sector of Berlin the
laught "social_science." court martial of a young British soldier, He was a short, pule, clean-shaven chap named Hugh Sharp,
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Britists
after. attended
The Vopos'
HUGH
Bo
And of "George" — always "George" in the background.
The
court
SHARP declded to
scene in the His unit is the 1st Battalion reason In person with his martial was a solemn one. The King's Own Yorkshire presumptive mother-in-law who For here was
a young man ves in the Russian sector of facing a serious charge. And I Berlin, Wearing his British had only to turn my head to Army battledress and carryng see outside the window the his paybook and leave pass, as hideous red-brick of Spandau, required by the regulations, he where the top Nazl war bought an underground railway criminals stul eke out their days, ticket, and duly arrived in the Russian sector,
KNOW A TREASURE
WHEN YOU SAW IT?
MAN in Glasgow
buya a small side-
But the irresistible British But he had been there only brought a uny, nigger even to Army way of saying things
ten minutes au was
walking towards the house this tene efie For as the where bis, lancee's mother yes, Judge Advocate General "was when he was picked up by the reading the list of equipment
"Yopos
(short for which Hugh Sharp was alleged el, or
East German to have neglectfully mislaid, he intoned the matchless item: That started what must have "One drawers woollen. 108, 6d,"
-(London Express Service)
been my very
| months ni the life of: Private
Every dealer has constantly Hugh Sharp, of Whitehaven, fo find treasures
board for 158. His By WOLF MANKOWITZ sufficiently, profitable
wife doesn't like it—
is delighted when
π
local dealer offers £15 for
It. Her husband gets stubborn-refuses to sell. Even-
What to look for
PORCELAIN: Don't be too impressed by a fine guld anchor Chelica mark. Many modern reproduction French pieces carry perfect replica marks. Look at the delicaoy
of colour and modelling Look subject. Consider that the condition should never be absolutely perfect-if 11 someone else would
ав
at
tually the detérmined dealer buys the sideboard for £45.
of
Specialists in roaily
.which
Cumberland. Bro
to yield
to
There followed, he related, a long series of in- him a living. In the dealer's rogations, gaolings and travel. He was taken to Potsdam, routine. (which is the most con-
for then
six sistent treasure-hunt of all),
wipeks knowledge is the best divining Dryden. in. Dresden a man
entered Inamed "George”
the obscure rod,
story. Who, asked the Judge- Advocate General, was, this "George"7
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categories, stand the best chance
Treasure-hurting making finda, for even the
is nevetho most experienced dealer has 'less
beggar-your-neighbour only, a general working mow- game, When the loser is a deal- ledge. To reap fully the benefit er like the
the barrow-boy in This a small, not uncom- of a rare and, the discoverer Kensington who recently Bold mon example of antique must be able to cap, the know- several thousand pounder worth of Italian cameos for 455, very treasure-hunting,
ledge of the dealer. happen.
ed in 1929. The Glasgow Treasure hunters, therefore, citizen made a very good should study the market no well profit: but the sideboard as the aesthetics
they sek. Was a fine Sheraton one and the dealer made an even larger profit simply because he was more knowledgeable ou market values than the original discoverer.
Sheer luck
A find you may make with out study is the unexpected one, treasure-trove style. Every old desk contains secret drawers been known to
This story embodies all which
have
in
to
talk of
'Head man'
"OH," said Hugh Sharp, "he
-littk objection is raised to tho
was the head man over game. But sometimes the laser there. He Is the head of the is a church bazaar, like one last Russlin secret service." of whatever year at which a
William And "Cieorge" tried to tempt Mary footstool was sold for å
a Hugh Sharp. How would he shilling. If you Ind a rarity like, asked "George," to go to a someone has to lose, and the place called Bautizen and get a thrill of treasure-hunting lies in nice job there? Well, Hugh was finding a rarity for practically "getting frightened that they me go" so he said nothing. But its satisfactions are wouldn't let greatest when the game is won Yes, he would try. Bautzen..
Hugh, sitting rigid and respect- skilfully against a fitting op-
on his seat in fully
the court- ponent,
room, which is normally cinema.
in the British Army's educational centre said that he maite four separate attempts to Some- escape from Bautzen.
triod.. it alone, 18-times ho
and two with two Americans other Brilon Butthe first times he was caught,
to Hugh Sharp yds sent. school
What did in Bautzen. learn?
the German and “sociól sciences,” he replied.
コー
£2,000 show!'
0
-onco
the important principles of yield lost in the form of treasure-seeking. Can you known diaries or manuscripts. recognise a treasure when
An old French polisher, well- Pitting her knowledge against you see it? And if you can, known the London trade, the trade in this way, an do you know where to sell used Die
the large year-old girl, Angela Seddon, it?
quantity of gold sovereigns he of Holland Party was able to
found in a horse- contly to a collection For treasures are still hair apfa. After that, he would which she had bought out of
french-polish
horse-hair fer pocket money. waiting to be found, even of very cheaply.
The choicest item in it had become though antiquesTM scarcer every year.
With the same kind of sheer cast her £3, It was a rare
block shawl, said by an luck, a Newcastle dealer in pert to be worth more tha 1935 bought a bronze Buddha £2,000. Go for rarities from a sellor, He discovered
ANSWER: Yes-but I did not that the bronze had a false base,
That girl has the essential have a very good name. inside were several hundred characteristics of an antique Once
have found the piece long before it got on to the junk heap.
POTTERY: Look for potter's marks, which are much more reliable than porectaln factory marks. You should gel a ecpy of the pocket edition of Chat- fer's book on Marks and Monograms.
SILVER: All Bolid silver Items, carry a distinctive assay mark. The English marks are all inled' in a small booklet which you can buy for Us..
FICTURES: Don't be too Impressed by clear signa- tures which may very well: be painted in water-colour over the olf surfer. Test them by wiping over with your finger. Examine condition of the canvas.
the stretch
the
particular for vide
the
and
of
of ske. Hemember to” Isok
nny
-
he
QUESTION: Did you learn politics?
confinement-and then
Whenever a great find is
and large, however, it is a the unconsidered arities that "Goorgo" turned up again with picture sold for $700 (cost: waste of time trying to unscrew are still to be found in Britain's questions about Hugh's inten-
attics and junk-shops, need her tons. 2s. 6d.), amateur treasure bronze Buddhas.
Hugh said he was
pald some seekers immediately start A
quick gye, her. flair, all the really accomplished information they can muster money at the school for hand looking for Goardist They treasure-socker can often find a and an element which cannot
and carpentry, This he would do better to look for the current scarcity of goods,
bargain at an auction. With be organized-luck,
extra food.
When got him after his third Dacapo attempt he was sen
made, such as the Gudrlunds worth of jewels. By treasure-hunter. Bockers after solitarugh Sharp gol 14 days'
rarities which have not sustinees do, their best to been so well publicised: make sure that no rarity passco
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uncatalogued, but they infallible,
are not
£50 picture
-
£7
In pottery, for instance, it is still possible to find a. dull- looking Delft dish for Lew shillings which is worth many pounds. But in porcelain it is
****** most unlikely that a fine Chelsea bird, will be picked up for is consisting of odds and ends too Sometimes "mixed" - lot then the several hundreds.
is
unimportant to be cataloguel always worth, simply. bermiso.
will contain some porcelain values arc better adparately
known, and more, casily resintil rarity which has been
cognised, than' pottery values,
Study the market
overlooked. On one ocension a "mixed" lot for 148, which cod- -tained"ú small- Dresden • piece
worth £50.
Sometimes badi wather brot
In still rarer objects, you en, vents dealers from getting to a „Ħuctosafell.....In "coultry auction) and important
be even more. and sub feels
1934, a collector of... scientific. Hem will go for n song instruments picked up a..dusty
telescope' which „turned out, to
Open in 1984 a fight broke out
be dated 1044, the oldest known between two denime, optical instrument in Phindal auction room),
doogo
joena dooter collants' fight pa so kiligh
used by tribal witching wi
in curing along and 20%
event in America, which collees South Lon by pu
In de blablys comprehe
Buy many bang alone and he
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
tenced to four months in
Then,
Inst
month, wearing civvies,
Sharp Binally
made, hugh
lo Berlin-by the simple expedient, of taking a train out of Bautzen. He looked upla Anna, here. In the Western acctor and asked her to call the police, and that was that.
One major
AND ín court. Hugh strenuous- A denied that, ha sighed, noy paper, put bafore... him by
Goorge
saying that, he was willing to live permanently, In Germany's Eastern zone and so kalpato, work fok "demoe
tha
to 50 day
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