Lost Masterpieces
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Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Lost Masterpieces: And Other Verses The passion for making collections - generally of quite useless objects - seems to be almost universal among the men and women of to-day. It is found in all classes of Society. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales collects postage stamps. Mr. Pierpont Morgan collects objects of art. Mr. Carnegie collects Free Libraries. In the lower classes half the little street boys in London seem to collect the portraits of dazzling young females that are given away with the cheaper brands of cigarettes. The other half collect tram tickets. My friend Mr. Cyrus P. Tuckett, the well-known Chicago millionaire, is no exception to this rule. He is an enthusiastic collector. But with an originality as rare as it is refreshing in his class he has found something to collect which most rich men overlook. He cares nothing for Raphael´s or lost Gainsborough´s. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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