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Masonic Chit Chat.
commenced by Messrs . Christie and Manson , at their rooms in Kingstreet , St . James ' s . The collection consisted of jewellery , trinkets , and articles of vertu , miniatures , enamels , engravings , drawings , gems , & c . Many of the lots , of which there were nearly five hundred , were curious ancl valuable . Among the various lots sold the following were deserving of notice : —The Knights Templars' state sword ancl belt , with extra crimson velvet scabbard and shield-beltworn bthe late Duke as
, y Grand Prior of the order , the hilt , buckles , ancl mountings being of massive gold , most beautifully chased , was bought by Messrs . Town and Emanuel , of Bond-street , for 135 ? . A pair of very massive chased gold spurs , modelled after an original Templar ' s spur , was sold for 52 / . A curious rosary of cornelian beads , gold mounted , fetched five guineas . A mahogany case , containing a set of pipes ancl tobacco canisters , said to have belonged to Lord Byron , sold for 21 . 7 s . The Oxford Bible of
1828 , in a richly embossed silver outer binding , sold for 71 . 12 . ? . 6 c / . Another similarly bound Bible fetched 91 . A beautiful little model of one of the wild cattle in Chillingham Park was bought by Sir A . Clifton for 41 . A bust of Dr . Parr , in marble , by Clarke , fetched 71 . 10 s . ; and a small bust of William IV ., in wax , was bought by Colonel Fox for 3 / . 5 s . A pair of curious candlesticks , in ormolu , with figures and flowers in Dresden porcelain , sold for ten guineas . A handsome tea
caddy , richly inlaid with buhl , containing two cut glass caddies , mounted with silver gilt , fetched nineteen guineas . Among the articles sold were a quantity of rare perfumes , silks , velvets , the robes of the orders of the Bath , the Thistle , & c . The concluding portion of the library has been disposed of by Messrs . Evans , New Bond-street . Many lots deserve notice , especially one of the books , on the last leaf of which bears in MS . the date of 1 st Richard III . 23 d Au . 1483 ; the book was knocked down for 16 / . 10 s .
VOICE OF JACOB . — " The Freemasons' Quarterly does us the justice to quote at length , from a recent number , our remonstrance against its imputation of indifference on the part of the Jews , to the memory ofthe lamented and illustrious Duke of Sussex . Our candid ancl courteous contemporary admits at once , that the facts cited by us , if they had been under his review at the time , would have induced him to qualify the remarks we complained of . What else he says about ' the' Sussex Memorialis too much associated with Masonic considerations to come
, within our province . That Jews , who happen to be Masons , have clone less than was reasonably to be expected from them , as Masons , does certainly not appear ; and we incline to the opinion , that whatever was due from them , as Jews , might be more appropriately contributed towards an institution for improving the less elevated classes of the Jewish nation , than towards a statue only , perhaps not always accessible except to the initiated .
" Since the above was in type , we have been delighted to find that a meeting , presided over by Lord Ebrington , has determined that the Sussex Memorial shall be a new wing to the Royal Free Hospital . The terms in which this resolution is couched , are so precisely in accordance with what we have ventured to declare should be the Jewish feeling on the subject , that we do not wait for orders to reproduce the advertisement , but at once strike out other matter on the last page , for the opportunity of recommending so excellent a design to the favour of our readers . The memory of that illustrious philanthropist has strong claims upon a Jewish organ , nationally ; and still more because he was
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Masonic Chit Chat.
commenced by Messrs . Christie and Manson , at their rooms in Kingstreet , St . James ' s . The collection consisted of jewellery , trinkets , and articles of vertu , miniatures , enamels , engravings , drawings , gems , & c . Many of the lots , of which there were nearly five hundred , were curious ancl valuable . Among the various lots sold the following were deserving of notice : —The Knights Templars' state sword ancl belt , with extra crimson velvet scabbard and shield-beltworn bthe late Duke as
, y Grand Prior of the order , the hilt , buckles , ancl mountings being of massive gold , most beautifully chased , was bought by Messrs . Town and Emanuel , of Bond-street , for 135 ? . A pair of very massive chased gold spurs , modelled after an original Templar ' s spur , was sold for 52 / . A curious rosary of cornelian beads , gold mounted , fetched five guineas . A mahogany case , containing a set of pipes ancl tobacco canisters , said to have belonged to Lord Byron , sold for 21 . 7 s . The Oxford Bible of
1828 , in a richly embossed silver outer binding , sold for 71 . 12 . ? . 6 c / . Another similarly bound Bible fetched 91 . A beautiful little model of one of the wild cattle in Chillingham Park was bought by Sir A . Clifton for 41 . A bust of Dr . Parr , in marble , by Clarke , fetched 71 . 10 s . ; and a small bust of William IV ., in wax , was bought by Colonel Fox for 3 / . 5 s . A pair of curious candlesticks , in ormolu , with figures and flowers in Dresden porcelain , sold for ten guineas . A handsome tea
caddy , richly inlaid with buhl , containing two cut glass caddies , mounted with silver gilt , fetched nineteen guineas . Among the articles sold were a quantity of rare perfumes , silks , velvets , the robes of the orders of the Bath , the Thistle , & c . The concluding portion of the library has been disposed of by Messrs . Evans , New Bond-street . Many lots deserve notice , especially one of the books , on the last leaf of which bears in MS . the date of 1 st Richard III . 23 d Au . 1483 ; the book was knocked down for 16 / . 10 s .
VOICE OF JACOB . — " The Freemasons' Quarterly does us the justice to quote at length , from a recent number , our remonstrance against its imputation of indifference on the part of the Jews , to the memory ofthe lamented and illustrious Duke of Sussex . Our candid ancl courteous contemporary admits at once , that the facts cited by us , if they had been under his review at the time , would have induced him to qualify the remarks we complained of . What else he says about ' the' Sussex Memorialis too much associated with Masonic considerations to come
, within our province . That Jews , who happen to be Masons , have clone less than was reasonably to be expected from them , as Masons , does certainly not appear ; and we incline to the opinion , that whatever was due from them , as Jews , might be more appropriately contributed towards an institution for improving the less elevated classes of the Jewish nation , than towards a statue only , perhaps not always accessible except to the initiated .
" Since the above was in type , we have been delighted to find that a meeting , presided over by Lord Ebrington , has determined that the Sussex Memorial shall be a new wing to the Royal Free Hospital . The terms in which this resolution is couched , are so precisely in accordance with what we have ventured to declare should be the Jewish feeling on the subject , that we do not wait for orders to reproduce the advertisement , but at once strike out other matter on the last page , for the opportunity of recommending so excellent a design to the favour of our readers . The memory of that illustrious philanthropist has strong claims upon a Jewish organ , nationally ; and still more because he was