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Henri Edmond Becker, comb, 1902 Twenty years ago on December 2, 1997, I was visiting the Drouot salerooms in Paris when 1 noticed this superb comb in a display cabinet and coming up for auction the next day. Though it bore Becker’s monogram the auction catalog described it as being anonymous with an estimate of 2,000…

E. Tell – Goldscheider “Judith”, circa 1900 In South America, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay were for many years a great source of supply of artworks including Art Nouveau and Art Deco. I started to regularly go there in the mid eighties, albeit a bit late, but nonetheless managed to acquire several great pieces which are…