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Show Valuable Chairs. The tlue of chairs ' strictly relative. rela-tive. Enormous prices havo been paid for chnlrs in recent years, notably the $100,000 for a set of half a dozon Louis XIV. chairs upholstered In Gobelin tapeclry, orlglhally made for Mario Antoinette. Kven this price, however, was oxceoded by sums paid for throe of tho Hamilton pnlaco chairs, ono of which brought $3,000. A most valuablo and historical interesting inter-esting suite of furniture is that which, moro than a century ago, wan presented present-ed by Warren Hastings to Tlppoo Sahib, Sa-hib, cud which was purchased at tho Londcsborongh sale tor $5,000. Tho sulto consisted or a card table and sofa, tw 1 small cabinets and four armchairs, arm-chairs, all of solid Ivory most exquisitely exquis-itely carved. Hut probably tho mo3t costly chair In tho world Is ono or tho treasures ot tho shah or Persia. It Is or soil1 gold, thickly oncrusted with diamonds, rublos, pearls and sapphires. sap-phires. Its vnluo is CRtimatod to bo $2,500,000. |