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Show Heirlooms Worth Having. Alphonse Wassler of 1625 Gorman street, Cincinnati, is the owner of two rare paintings of Our Lord and the Blessed Virgin, which were painted thirty years before Columbus discovered discov-ered America. Mr. Wassler brought them home with him on his return from Germany several weeks ago. He had been visiting his mother in Elsas, Germany, and the pictures, which have been handed down in the Wassler Wass-ler family for generations, were given to him by her. On the back of the pictures the date, in old Saxon figures and writing, are inscribed, "1462, by Sebastian Kundvar." The painting is done in brilliant red, yellow, blue and brown, and must have been an arduous task, because the work was executed on the reverse side of the glass. The frames are odd, having been inlaid with strips of mirror that do not show blemish, despite the years. |