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Collection Of Family Antiques: They replaced the Mexican tiles in the entry with stone Flooring typical of Normandy homes. New French doors open to a charming enclosed courtyard featuring a mural painted from the owners' travel photos.
Visitors also will be invited to tour the spacious master bedroom on the second Floor and notice the collection of family antiques placed throughout the residence.
RIGGS COLLECTION OF ARMS AND ARMOR, the collection of William Henry Riggs (q.v.), presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1913 and placed on exhibition there in 1914. The collection was gathered from practically every sale of such objects, private or public, in a period beginning in the early 1850's and includes intact some of the most famous European collections. Particularly rich in articles of historic as well as artistic interest, the total number of pieces in the museum collection is about 2,500. These represent the cream of Mr. Riggs' original collection, he having possessed at one time some 8,000 objects; but these were sorted, weeded out, and many pieces of the commoner sort exchanged for single objects of greater merit, or sold at public auction.
The post of shogun was inherited by ;mbers of the Minamoto family until the OOs, when the Ashikaga family took over. his family ruled until the 1600s, when the akugawa family assumed the shogunate. , 1868 the last Tokugawa shogun was reed by a court revolution to hand his >wers back to the emperor.
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