The Nation - News from Jan. 8, 1986
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The Smithsonian Institution will close a $7-million deal Thursday to buy one of the world’s finest collections of Persian art, once thought to have disappeared during World War II, for display in a new museum scheduled for completion in May, 1987. The sale of the collection, amassed by Parisian jeweler Henri Vever early in this century, is to be completed in Washington Thursday, said Lawrence Brinn, a New York lawyer who represents Vever’s heirs.
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