Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1938 — Page 7
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CLEVELAND, Oct. 20 (U. P).— The rare possessions and art objects from the world’s far corners, gath-
ered by the Van Sweringen broth-
ers, late railroad magnates, in a Brepime 9? Sollacting, will be open x e pudlic welvre their sai, . Bat sax, Oct
But the public, which seldom saw the cloistered brothers themselves, will have 'to pay $1 each even to see what they owned, . To attend.the four-day sale itself will cost more than twice as much —$2.20 a head, plus 30 cents tax— $2.50, ¢ The collection, unique in Americana, includes 3000 items of furni-
ture, paintings, rugs, china, pewter and other housewares, 90 per cent of them of the American Colonial period. It will be sold at the vast 54-room house which tne brothers built by remodeling a mammoth dairy barn on their 477-acre estate in exclusive suburban Hunting Valley.
The home itself, which really includes eight other guest and servant houses, has been for sale for some time, but no offers for it have been received. It is held by credtors. The collection is a delight to persons who love things beautiful. Few ever have seen it, for the brothers
guarded themselves from the public. Part of their lives they spent at their Daisy Hill estate, site of the sale; other times they dwelled in their exclusive mansion in Shaker Blvd. in suburban Shaker Heights, which they built. Then there was the deeply paneled apartment high in the 42-story Terminal Tower, capital of their rail kingdom, which they built in Cleveland’s Public Square. That was their sanctum for sleep after conferences which: kept them late in the city. But Daisy Hill was .their most sumptuous home. There they had their own pipe organ, their own barbershop, every comfort of high
affluence. They always were together and neither married.
Among articles to go on the block is the chair in which sat Charles Dickens when he was the editor of The London Daijly News in 1846. And it is only one of many valuable objects in what was their Dickens room. Another rare old piece is an 84leg table at which could be seated 40 guests. - It occupies the center of the huge dining room at Daisy Hill. In the same room is rare old English china, enough for several services. Then there is the canopy bed formerly in the home of John Quincy Adams. And a portrait of Andrew Jackson by John R. Johnston.
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Other portraits include one of Daniel Webster by George P. H. Healy; John Marshall by Cephas Thompson; the naval engagement at the Battle of Sandy Hook, by Nicholas Pocock, and one of George Washington taking the oath of office on the steps of the sub-Treasury in New York. In the same category is a set of seven paintings by Thomas Birch depicting the Battle of Lake Erie, and a portrait of John Paul Jones by the American artist, Charles Wilson Peale. Corridors throughout the home are lined with early American prints, along with a series of six Rowlandson drawings which satir-
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ize 18th Century English life. The rug group includes several rich Fereghan and Persian carpets of unusual size, and an extensive collection of American hooked rugs. In the furniture group, a feature piece is a ‘maple bonnet-top chest on chest, owned formerly by Edward Holyoke, president of Harvard University in 1737, obtained from his heirs. It is one of a large group of early colonial pieces from Daisy Hill's 11 master bedrooms. Also in the group are several bureaus and secretaries made in Connecticut about 1750, desks of the 17th and 18th Centuries and a handsome New England mahogany black-
front secretary of a design similar to those made in Rhode Island in the 18th Century. One of the rarest furniture objects: is a Heppelwhite New England butler’'s secretary of the break-front type.
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also a low stand, two horn cups, a candlestick and a wvedspread, all from Dickens’ home, many rare Dickens editions and a set of old English China figures representing Dickens characters.
Several early American clocks are included. One of the rarest is a tall-
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