This copy, printed on raw silk, is perhaps the only hand-colored copy in existence, Winterthur says.

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Nautical motifs are "traditionally traditional, " said Linda Eaton, curator of textiles at the Winterthur Museum.

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He attended Wesleyan University and then the American decorative arts master's program at Winterthur, in Wilmington, Del.

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Winterthur, a subsidiary of Credit Suisse, might also be sold soon, although its boss, Leonhard Fischer, denies it.

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The experiment backfired and Swiss Re sold its primary-insurance business to Allianz and to another Swiss insurer, Winterthur, in 1994.

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For one thing, banking-secrecy and data-protection laws will make it fiddly for Credit Suisse and Winterthur to pool information about customers.

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Another major treasure in the exhibition, "Wisdom Instructing Youth in the Science of Geography, " about 1800, was purchased by Winterthur just this year.

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Ebner, 52, played important role in last year's mergers of UBS and Swiss Bank (UBS stock surged 70% last year), and Credit Suisse and Winterthur Insurance.

FORBES: Europe

Markets quickly judged the Winterthur deal pricey.

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"In the United States, we tend to have a romantic view of owning a great British estate, " says Tom Savage, the director of museum affairs at Winterthur, the 175-room Delaware estate of the late chemical heir Henry Francis du Pont, which houses the foremost collection of American furniture and decorative objects.

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