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Show Valuable Lace Collectiona. The specimens, of lace given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by tho lata Mrs. Ator are worth not less than $10,-000. $10,-000. The aggregate valuo of lace in tho Astor family exceeds $200,000. Thoso owned by tho several Vanderbilt-s are aaid to be worth over $375,000. Mrs. Gerard's collection w worth, perhaps, $73,000. Mrs. W. C. Whitney probably ha3 $50,000 worth. Tlie late Mrg. A. T. Stewart had over $200,000 worth. Mrs. R. L. Stuart, it is stated, is the owner of not Jew than $3'rf,0o0 worth. Score of other ladiea prominent in social circle! ' own lacea varying in value from $20,000 to $50,000. Thousand dollar fronts, $500 fichus, $200 handkerchiefs, $300 to$VJ scarfs, and collar and cuff sets of $200 in value are plentiful in wealthy "upper tendom." Interview in New York Star. |