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  • EMPEROR’S CIGARETTE BOX GIFT MAKES 3,800 IN BANDON

    THIS  lacquer cigarette box was an emperor’s gift.  It had been presented to the late Georgette Ellison by the late Emperor Hirohito of Japan.

    The cigarette box – an unusual feature of the Hegarty’s sale in Bandon on July 24 –  sold for 3,800.  It was bought by a collector in Hong Kong, who heard about the piece through the internet.

    Georgette Ellison was widow of a high ranking US military officer who served in the Far East in the years following the Second World War.

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