A Royal Shirt
The sale's rarest item, a white cottony shirt that may accept belonged originally to King Henry VII, was purchased by the Victoria and Albert Mu seum for 850 guineas ($2,329).
In a appearance of activity not generally apparent at this affectionate of sale, the admirers access into acclaim as Mrs. Made leine Ginsburg, the apparel babysitter of the museum, exhausted out a dealer, Christopher Gibbs, who chock-full behest at 800 guineas.
“It's a marvelous, rare, beautiful, admirable thing,” said Mr. Gibbs of the shirt, which is bizarre at the seams, collar and cuffs with dejected cross‐stitch Italian em broidery. “I could accept awash it afresh in an instant.”
One of the sale's above buyers was Julie Christie. Behest for the actress, who is currently active in Califor nia, was Alan Aldridge, edi tor of the two Beatle song books.
After affairs several items for himself—a 13‐volume set of the Florence and Ber tha Upton children's books (“The Golliwog in War,” “The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls,” and “A Golli wog”) for $300 and a acrylic ed board Noah's Ark with Noah, his ancestors and 307 an imals and birds (“My kids will go beserk back they see it”) for $438, Mr. Ald backbone angry his absorption to fashions and furnishings.
Silks and Dresses
“They're for Julie, she's got a new abode in Malibu,” ex plained the long‐haired albino book collector, as the auctioneer, Paul Whitfield, agape bottomward to his bid sev eral lots of Chinese and Vic torian dresses, a Chinese dejected cottony batt with bout ing curtains, and a mid‐19th aeon check coverlet abstract with moral ad monitions.
“Dolls are actual absorbing psychologically,” commented Mrs. Mary Johnson, a collec tor of dolls and juvenilia from Hampstead. “They're such a abundance to spinsters and wid ows; and some adolescent men aggregate them, too.”
“It's alone aloof gotten popu lar in England,” she added. “But they're added doll‐mind ed in the States; the dejected bathe ladies with no absolute to their abridged money accept al means been able to allow them.”
Several dolls did command aerial prices—a 19th aeon French appearance baby went for $316, and a German charac ter baby with a albino wig for over'$300. But some could be had by thrifter abridged books.
Wide Range in Prices
“They're not as aerial as they accept been,” said Mrs. Betty Cadbury, the administrator of a baby and toy building in Birmingham. “But they're captivation their own. The rarer and added authentic, dolls al means back a nice price.”
Other about bargains of the day could be begin in uniforms and livery. A set of red costly breeches, blood-soaked waistcoat and white covering with blood-soaked facings that already belonged to the third Earl of Ashburnham went for $76.72, while a 19th‐century acreage officer's covering after regimental badge was pur chased for aloof beneath $14.
The sale's best aflame client was assuredly Steven Gregory, a active adolescent apprentice of affected design. A apparel collector, he bought an affected aboriginal 19th aeon gentleman's cloister clothing of canteen blooming satin.
The suit, abstract at the borders, pockets and cuffs with garlands of pas tel French adornment of about 1780, had been the brilliant of the pre‐sale viewing.
“I was all of a jitter; I was accessible to bead out at 200 guineas [$548],” said Mr. Gregory, whose bid of 160 guineas ($438.40) was successful. “But afore I knew it, it was mine. I could hardly speak.”
A bit added blasé was Mrs. Cora Ginsburg, an antiques apparel banker from New York.
“I usually buy more,” said Mrs. Ginsburg, who bought several 18th and 19th aeon dresses, including one of attenuate Indian printed chintz. “This time I won't alike apperceive what I've spent until I accept to pay the bill.”
