Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1912 — MASTERPIECE SOLD FOR $l0 [ARTICLE]

MASTERPIECE SOLD FOR $l0

Cruclflx Worth $125,000 Found at Bpanish Rag Fair at Catalan isMadrid.—A beautiful carved ivory crucifix, which was purchased for tbs sum of $lO at a rag fair in Rous, Catalonia, SStyears ago, has been discovered to begone of the finest carvings of Leonardo da Vinci. Ten years ago the purchaser left this crucifix with her other posses-" slons to her daughter, wife of the deputy, Senor Mayner. No great Value had ever been attached to the object, except as a souvenir, until some weeks ago, when a person who was visiting the house offered SSOO for it Senora Mayner refused to part with the crucifix, and she also rejected a further offer of $75,000 from an antiquarian who bad heard of the incident and examined the crucifix. A third offer of $125,000 is now said to have 0 been received from an American eolt —a. - awCWJF* __ . '-