Garden Marbles from Abroad 
duty, and the necessity of 
making one’s profit on a 
relatively small number of 
sales, besides meeting the 
inevitable loss by breakage 
in transit. For instance, 
the sum asked for the 
balloon-shaped basin from 
the Baron de Hirsch es¬ 
tate, before referred to, is 
$12,500. For the well¬ 
head with iron frame and 
buckets, the price quoted 
is $6,500. A good sar¬ 
cophagus costs from 
$1,500 to $3,000, accord¬ 
ing to the size and style. 
Vases and urns vary greatly ; genuinely old 
ones may be bought from $400 up. Mod¬ 
ern reproductions of old designs, done as 
well as might be expected, cost much less 
than originals ; in many cases, the latter are 
in museums or otherwise unobtainable. On 
the other hand, a fortunate find may enable 
a dealer to sell a veritable antique at much 
less than it would cost to have it reproduced. 
an o 
From the 
I n the decoration of 
modern American gar¬ 
dens, history is repeating 
itself in ways both desir¬ 
able and the reverse. 
With the recent develop¬ 
ment of garden-making, 
there has naturally been a 
turning back to the un¬ 
surpassed models of Ren¬ 
aissance Italy, and with 
this, to an attitude oddly 
paralleling that of the 
great estate owners of 
three hundred years ago. 
Of these, a contemporary 
authority has written : 
“ Passionate collectors of antiquities, and 
affecting, when they did not cherish it, an 
enthusiasm for antique life, they made their 
gardens veritable museums, even at last 
counterfeiting antique ruins when they were 
not fortunate enough to find them ready at 
hand on their estates.” 1 
LD FONT 
Keller Collection 
1 Prof. A. D. F. Hamlin on the Italian formal garden in “ Euro¬ 
pean and Japanese Gardens.” 
From the H. 0. Watson Gallery 
A MODERN COPY OF AN 
OLD DESIGN 
From the H. 0. Watson Gallety 
AN OLD FLOWER BOWL 
SET UPON A NEW BASE 
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