Photo released by French art expert house Marc Ottavi shows a stuffed ostrich and a Mickey Mouse toy dated from the pre-World War II period, found last June by an auctionner in a flat which was closed since her owner, Marthe de Florian, moved to southern France before the war. Mrs de Florian, a demimondaine, who never returned to her Paris flat, died at the age of 91.

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