Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1903 — Dinner Service Worth $400,000. [ARTICLE]

Dinner Service Worth $400,000.

The famous Sevres dessert service which is kept In cabinets In the green drawing-room at Windsor castle and in which President Loubet was most interested is probably worth about £BO,OOO or $400,000. The service was purchased by George IV., when prince of Wales, for quite a small sum. It passed on his death, in accordance with his will, to William IV., who generously made it over to the crown instead of keeping It as his own private property, which he could have done if so disposed.

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