Letter from Ashmole to Schaeffer on publications in the Illustrated London News and The TimesBernard Ashmole

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22nd April, 1952

Dear Professor Schaeffer,

Thank you for your letter. All arrangements have been made for the exhibition of the silver bowl, and the label had already been prepared according to your original draft. I will certainly [illegible] photographs [illegible] Egypt [illegible] and I will have the new NIO on exhibition that day. I think this is better than [illegible] there would be nothing to prevent a visitor taking a photograph with a hand-camera and publishing it without acknowledgements in a newspaper. If we put it on [illegible] here.

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[handwritten: long] elaborate decoration this would be a hard task in any case, but the frailty of the bowl in its present condition precludes the use of either heat or pressure in moulding, and dictates a slower procedure than those usually employed.

[illegible]. Thank you for the proofs of your article in Syria? Illustrated London News? I will give the editor of The Times a note about it on your behalf. I will certainly make use of them.

I have asked the laboratory about the possibility of making an electrotype replica of the bowl. There seems to be no time to be the necessary work on this before its return to Cyprus, and of course it will be on exhibition continuously. Owing to the

Handwritten: With kind regards / yours sincerely / Bernard Ashmole.

Professor C. F. A. Schaeffer, [illegible] Rue [illegible], Le Vésinet, Seine-et-Oise, France.

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