Claims of great antiquity are as common as £7 pints in London pubs (and only slightly more welcome). Every pub, it can sometimes seem, has a tall tale to tell – which would be funny were it not for ...
Komter, Amsterdam; His sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 9 March 1926, lot 3, for 1,125 Dutch florins to Bruyne (as ‘The visit of Czar Peter the Great to ...