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Show OLD MASTERS' TERMED COPIES Canadian Seller Declares Paintings Were Not Described Des-cribed as Genuine NEW YORK. Jan 24 David I. Ro-gow, Ro-gow, a pearl merchant, todav filed suit against Granby Staunton Howard of Ottawa. Canada, alleging that of 87-supposed 87-supposed old masters he recently pur-Chased pur-Chased from him almost all have been found to be copies The purchase price was to hnve been $150,000 of which $15,000 was paid within ten day- after the deal, the remainder being covered by notes Rogow alleged that such old masters as Rembrandt, Titian and Rubens, and such moderns as Gainsborough and Inne- were represented in the collection. collec-tion. W'pre the paintings as represented, represent-ed, he says, th lot would have been worth $1,000,000 Rogow's attorneys' say he purchased the paintings for, speculation, and did not have an appraisal ap-praisal made. Experts examined the paintings after they had been shipped to New York from Canada last November, the purchaser's lawyers claim, and de clared they believed them to have been painted by students of the mas ters represented. Attorneys for the seller deny that h misrepresented his collections, declaring that the paintings paint-ings were not described as "old masters." |