Familiefejde about the 47 million: Can you sell references?

you Can sell a piece of Danish history?

It should The high Court provide answers to over the next three days, where the same Erik Juel want to sell a very special blanket for a value of 47 million dollars. It will hofjægermesterens son, landowner Gregers Juel, however, do not find themselves in.

Therefore, the defendant is his own father and mother, when they tried to sell the carpet through the auction house Christie's in 2016.

the Case came up in court, where Gregers Juel was successful in that the curtain could not be sold. But as you know, ended up the case is not there.

- I am surprised and disappointed by the verdict, and we have immediately appealed it to the high court, it sounded at the time for the BT from hofjægermesterens counsel, Karoly Németh.

the Curtain for 47 million dollars

- Savonerie carpet, also called court of the sun king Blanket, was a gift from Louis 14. of France, which, because of his extravagant lifestyle was called 'the sun king'.

the Blanket was a gift to a Danish minister from the king himself, why it was sent from the Louvre to Denmark in the 17. century.

- Since the 1800s has the carpet been on the manor Juelsberg. It is Erik juel's wife, who has gotten the rug gift and want to sell it.

- Carpet is estimated to be 47 million dollars worth.

- the district Court ruled that the blanket could not be sold. Now, should The high court decide in the case.

As the Court in Lyngby should assess whether the carpet could be sold, the emphasis was placed on Kulturværdiudvalgets view of the famous carpet.

They believe that the carpet has 'inalienable cultural value of vital national importance', why it shouldn't be auctioned off.

Therefore struggling Gregers Juel also proceeding in The high Court to keep the carpet in the family's hands. The court in Lyngby gave him, as you know, unsuccessful in the case, why he was relieved at the time.

Judgment is the best possible for me, for Juelsberg and the Danish cultural heritage, said at the time from Gregers Juel in an email to BT.

the Eastern high Court has set three days of to the case, but it is not clear when that comes judgment.