Art: Littlest Lot

In Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe and Nagasaki Japanese antiquaries and curio dealers have come to know a U. S. citizen with white hair and glittering spectacles who approaches them smiling politely, holds his finger tips close together and cries over & over "Chiisai! Chiisai! Small! Small!" It is Jules Charbneau of Mount Clemens, Mich, on one of his round-the-world trips searching for minuscule knickknacks. Many collections of little things, from the elder J. P. Morgan's miniatures to Queen Mary's doll house, are better known and of greater artistic worth, but none is larger...

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