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Show SELL FURNITURE OF WINE KING PARIS. July Taris is witnessing the passing of one of the last reminders remind-ers In France of the famous German champagne Ring, Baron Walter de Mumrn The handsome furniture of the wealthy wine merchant, which was sequestrated early in th- war in his apartment on the Avenue du Bols Boulogne, Is helng sold for the benefit bene-fit of the state The i ontenfs of the beautiful apartment apart-ment included omc fine tapestries and : er.il sueriniens of 18th century' cabinet makers' work. The rale brought more than 500.600 francs I nc piece of tapestry, valued by the government gov-ernment officers at 50 francs brought f.OOO francs. The sale attracted a large gathering nf prominent Parisians because Herr Mumm's apartment was known as one of the most lavishly furnished in the fashionable quarter of Paris. An American girl, Mary de Mumm, now living with her grandfather, C C K Scovlllei a banker of Seneca, Kansas, is a daughter of Baron Walti r di ilumm, who married Mr Renville's daughter. The de Mumm estate In France, estimated in some reports to amount 1 1 1 J-'" 000,000 was sequestrated sequestrat-ed by the French government In the war as the Baron Is a ;erman subject although hf had spent most of his life in France. The Baron went to Germany when the War began and the Baroness remained In France serving as a nurse. In the effort to safeguard her share, of ihe de .Mumm estate In Prance th'e Baroness de Mumm came to the United States in October 1919, and through an net of congress her American Ameri-can citizenship was restored to her Returning to France she sought a divorce, di-vorce, but died there while this action was pending The Baroness' sister. Mrs. Josephine Tteadwell of New York, brought hi n sister's body from Paris to Seneca in May last. As she vvaa leaving 'her-bqurg, 'her-bqurg, the agents of the French government gov-ernment slezcd jewels she was wear-, log on the ground that they were property pro-perty of her r but on arriving n New Vork. Mrs Treadwell declared that the jewels were her own Baroness de .Mumm had claimed! that she had been giv en title to two-J fifths of the propertv of tho Baron under a separation agreement which if substantiated would le.ive her little I daughter Mary now about five years old. the helres to about 8, 000,000 |