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O2H Professor Karlgren -2- 15/4/38 So far for the bronzes., Acting upon M. Coedes” instructions, Melle Colani has with great generosity selected for our museum out of her very large duplicate material not less than 126 specimens representing widely different stages of the prehistory of Indochina. The return material for this prehistoric collection will be selected by me as soon as I am back in Swe...
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O2H Professor Karlgren -2- 15/4/38 So far for the bronzes., Acting upon M. Coedes” instructions, Melle Colani has with great generosity selected for our museum out of her very large duplicate material not less than 126 specimens representing widely different stages of the prehistory of Indochina. The return material for this prehistoric collection will be selected by me as soon as I am back in Sweden. M, Coedes has shown us the great confidence to allow me to take all this things, bronzes and stone imple- ments, and bring them with me so that they can be shipped from Hongkong with one of the Swedish motor-ships directly to Gotemburg. Yours very truly, JE Alers a/å J. G. Andersson
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oM8 Hanoi, April 15, 1938. Professor B. Karlgren, Östasiatiska Samlingarna, Sveavägen 65, STOCKHOLM Dear Professor Karlgren:- M. Coedes has shown me the extreme kind- ness to allow me to make a select...
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oM8 Hanoi, April 15, 1938. Professor B. Karlgren, Östasiatiska Samlingarna, Sveavägen 65, STOCKHOLM Dear Professor Karlgren:- M. Coedes has shown me the extreme kind- ness to allow me to make a selection for our museum among the dup- licates of the Dong-Son bronzes deseribed by Goloubev. Conse- quently in cooperation with my assistent, M. Thran, I have made a selection comprising 48 pieces: celts, spear-heads, daggers, etc. They are all exceedingly good specimens with a beautiful patina and I think, except possibly for some museum in Paris, we will have the richest representation in Europe of the Dong Son bronzes. The 48 pieces belong to two different groups: 42 are single pieces which are easily accessible for ex- change; those remaining belong to regular excavations and it is a quite special favour shown to us by M. Coedes to allow us to have these beautiful pieces. It is now the question how to repay Musee Finot for this generosity. I will deal first with the 42 pleces. These bronzes are much larger, much more beautifully pahinated and above all, practically inaccessible except through this museum, so there is no doubt that the Ordos bronzes we have already delivered here form only a partial repayment for these things. Consequently I ask you to show me the very great favour to select 30 pieces from our duplicates of Chinese bronzes. Musee Finot has not a single piece pre-Han so all that we can send of arms from Anyang and for the rest of Yin Chow, of Middle Chow and of Hwal are novelties for the museum. I consider that 30 pieces from our large and partly very beautiful duplicate material will - together with the Ordos bronzes already here - well represent the 42 bronzes. The six bronzes will be a special matter that I will take in my hands. In order to persuade M. Coedes to grant us this exceptional favour, I have to do an exceptional thing. I em golng to Shanghai and will buy two Anyang vessels and four smaller things from Anyang so that Musee Finot can make a small Anyang vitrine. M. Coedes was quite enthusiastic about this repayment for the six bronzes for which I am striving special- ly so heard, so I think that the matter in this way arranged will be carried out in a feeling that generosity has been shown both ways - which is after all the only way of doing things. To sum up this matter, I ask you very kindly to select 30 pieces of pre-Han bronzes aänd send them at the earliest convenience to Musee Finot.
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