Art: King's Treasures

To drag out the month-old story of George V's Jubilee, nearly every illustrated magazine in England continued to blaze last week with reproductions of the King's possessions. There were pictures of his horses, racing, hunters and parade, his Clumber hunting spaniels, his late mother's Labradors, his wife's collection of old Chinese jade, his Empire stamp collection, his great houses of Sandringham, Buckingham, Balmoral and, 500 years older than the others, Windsor. To the King's treasures at Windsor, the Connoisseur gave nearly an entire issue.*

But all these royal treasures were entirely eclipsed last week...

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