Show letters written during crusades M gustave burger a paris an collector has one of the strangest lobbies of the world and interest in the work Is doubled by the variety ol 01 he objects he seeks his hobby which ha has pursued or over thirty years has been the bringing together of the seals former attached to the correspondence ot he princes and prelates settled in syria in consequence 0 the crusades tn all he has secured fifty specimens which he intends to bequeath to the french nation some 0 the seals are ot great inter est as tor example that of king am aury II 11 0 jerusalem showing on its reverse the three chief buildings of the city that of dallan d seigneur of Na who defended jerusalem against saladin in 1187 and that of seigneur of the stronghold of Mara cleus on the seacoast of syria which shows the formidable keep of the fortress |