The furniture alone is worth a small fortune. The dressing table is superb.
I would have expected more dust and cobwebs (my place generates that much in a week!) and more disintegration of the fabrics though.
The furniture alone is worth a small fortune. The dressing table is superb.
I would have expected more dust and cobwebs (my place generates that much in a week!) and more disintegration of the fabrics though.
Looking for LDO marked EK2s and items relating to U-406.....
Doing abit of superficial snooping on this story, it seems that the apartment was originally owned by Marthe de Florian-the much famed Parisian Coquette who lived there in the 1890's and "entertained her suitors there". Among other treasures found inside were neatly beribboned tied bundles of her "suitors" love letters and calling cards-often with love notes hand written on their backs. The De Florian who fled to Southern France in 1940 was her grand daughter who did not Live there, in fact no one pretty much did until it was discovered in 2010-but the family Did faithfully keep up the rent and a maintenance fee. Apparently, when Marthe died, the family simply locked the doors and kept everything inside as it was left for unknown reasons (probably from politically correct secrecy, considering how many men of name and means she "knew"). Things are still veiled in secrecy, but Marthe was the lover of Giovanni Boldini (who painted her portrait in 1898 when she was 24 and at her pinnacle.), as well as one of the Prime Ministers of France- George Clemenceau, and several other society men. One can scarcely imagine the sights that the Ostrich must have been a witness to...lol
William
"Much that once was, is lost. For none now live who remember it."
It reminds me of the good old days!
I did have the luck to stumble on houses to empty in the same spirit.
Always a thrilling momment when entering such places, when you don't know where to look first.
I must have had like 15 such discovery's.
One a year was a good avarage, but that figure dropped down rather fast.....
Thanks for showing.
|<ris
Cool story, but a shame they had to destroy it by cleaning and selling the things. Could have been a rather unusual and interesting museum or something similair.
'I do not think we can hope for any better thing now.
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R. SCOTT.
Last Entry - For God's sake look after our people.'
In memory of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans. South Pole Expedition, 30th March 1912.
'I do not think we can hope for any better thing now.
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R. SCOTT.
Last Entry - For God's sake look after our people.'
In memory of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans. South Pole Expedition, 30th March 1912.
there are still places like that in mainland Europe,there is a forum on the net for people who explore But don't touch old houses and factorys.
Now that's what you call a time capsule!....
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