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Show hues' are ideto order BEARERS IN GERMANY ARE BUSY SELLING NOVELTIES TO NOV. ICS SEEKING HEIRLOOMS - . j Harvest Is Belnrj Reaped As Old Fam. lly Treasurers Are' Being Placed Upon Market By Once Well To Do German .Families ( Berlin. Mo'tleru "antiques" arc being purchased wholcsalo In Germany for J sale to unwary foreigners and newly . rich Teutons who have been prompted i to seek objects of real nrt by the news hat n number of princely families have been compollod to murk family l heirlooms nnd rare treasures, accord. ,ne to Investigation of somo clover buyers. The business of dealing In Imitations ha been so profitable that hundreds j of new "antique" stores Jinvo bocn ; opened, and representatives with choice lists of things "old families" have no part with nro encountorcd nt every turn. j One wuy of attracting tho Interest of n prospective" buyor has become so common It has almost lost Its value. The "antique" artist maneuvers for an S Introduction nnd In tho course of con versation mentions an old friend of the i former emperor, who must now sell his priceless heirlooms for a mere song to , buy his breakfast rolls nnd sausage's. The man's name of course cannot bo- divulged, Ho is so proud, nnd it would bo such humiliation. Arrange-' Arrange-' K,H'ts niy he mado, Iiowover, to view thojuitiques In tho dwelling of an "acquaintance, or they can bo transported trans-ported to tho ' shop of somo nntlquo denier. This method Is rooro successful with the newly rich Germans, who appreciate appreci-ate tho part pride may piny In yio sttti-I sttti-I ntlon, than with foreigners, especially Americans, who hive learned that' prido does not often prevent a prince or even a former king from talkjng business wncn. a few -hundred thousand thou-sand marks nro In sight. Trices for gonutnb nntlquos, owing to the keen competition' among purchasers', pur-chasers', "lmvo readied staggering pro. portion's nnd. possessors of those treus-m-es nro marketing now, either under tho press 'oftnccesslty or for business 1 reasons. Somo pieces belonging to n former king uf Saxony; wboso heir s said to hnvo disposed of his entire house funiilshings, brought ns much ns I 3,000,000 marks each. ." ' ' i |