Show MUSICAL ANTIQUES ONCE OWNED BY WHITE SOLD the recent Stanford White sale there was not more than two min o chaffering on each article belt be-lt was snapped up by eager pur ers Harps without strings went 100 because they were made In ince In the reign of Louis XIV gilt framed Italian armchairs sold 1180 because of the abiding faith b purchasers In their antiquity yx Bale opened with an offering of d musical Instruments auch as the Is of the romance days speak ul familiarly A sitar which look lite an elongated soup ladle went I5 Then the crowd of purchasers be music room at the White res e saw more value In sltars and others went at 15 and 11 each f attendants held up an attenu late whoso fretboard stuck out tie handle of a gardeners spade was a chlttarone English midol mid-ol the sixteenth century As theo the-o In the bottlegreen livery lifted chlttarone up to the little stand In front of the green velvet curtains ho swept the strings across the buttons of his waistcoat A mellow wall like the breath of an aeollan harp went forth from the hollow throat of the ancient Instrument The tuneful chit tarono brought 135 and a brother sold for 17G because he was moulded on more outie lines Another strange Instrument was the dulcimer a contrivance which looked like a modern zither Inclosed In a plant glove box When the attendants set It on the stand and let down the four sides of the box each depleting delightful pastoral scenes wherein klrtled shepherdesses toyed with beribboned be-ribboned crooks the creator of the stage atmosphere came again to tho fore and dropped 300 before the lure of thqse shephui dosses Then they sold 11 harps most of thorn sans strings and partially broken by Inflim Ity but all antiques The lowest price paid for a harp was 85 and 230 wan tho highwater mark |