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Thank you for your letter of Dec. 18th. Instead of sending the omitted items of my loan-list of Dec. 10th , especially the frog weight & the other weights, instead of being send by post box, could you have me made photographs in natural or near natural size with strong side lighting (drawing) and good shadow to give plastic relief, would help me. Also to have verified the weight in grammes. The votive bronze ingots could remain until the next division. I have good photographs. Thanks. The cases have arrived now at St. Germain this morning & the carpenter is going to open to see first if there is anything heavily broken in order to inform the insurance. I shall give you in a moment his first impression. Thank you for the statement of my account with the D.A. It is in order. The method of cleaning bronzes without taking the patina off is complicated, I have seen the results in the Brit. Mus. Here in Paris are a few commercial specialists extremely expensive. I propose that you dont clean any bronzes to be divided
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