Why is there no photo? (upd. Picture found!)

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On most Fridays we bring you a photo of a girl with a car, but in this case we don't have one. That is to say, we have a picture of the girl and we have a picture of her car, but none of them together. The lovely looking girl is baroness Gisela von Krieger who was born into a wealthy Prussian family and in the 1930s became one of the ten most fashionable women in the world. Her car is a 1936 Herman Ahrens designed Mercedes 540 K Special Roadster, which Gisela kept all her life. In 1942, in the middle of the war, she brought it from Germany to Switzerland. After the war she moved to New York and stored the 540K in Greenwich, where it remained for the better part of four decades, still with the Baroness's driving maps and silk gloves, even down to her lipstick-stained cigarette butts! We have been searching the internet for a long time, but have not been able to come up with a photo of both Baroness and 540K together. Still we are very certain there must be one. Can you help us out?
(By the way, this marvelous Mercedes will be offered during Gooding & Company's Pebble Beach Auction on August 18-19).

Update by Editor: William King found the picture we were looking for: Baroness Gisela von Krieger and her brother Henning with his Mercedes 540K Special Roadster. Thanks William!

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