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An Aristocrat’s Grandson, a Precious Desk and a Storage Unit in Queens

The 18th-century French writing desk that once belonged to Ulrich von Hassell, a German diplomat executed on the orders of Adolf Hitler, had sat for 12 years in a self-storage unit in Queens. The desk had been passed down five generations to Christian Agostino von Hassell, his American grandson, who had stowed it with hundreds […]

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