What is Victor Hammer (businessman)?
{{Orphan|date=May 2009}} '''Victor J. Hammer''' (November 1, 1901 – July 21, 1985)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Victor Hammer in Social Security Death Index|url=https://www.fold3.com/record/5650807-victor-hammer|website=Fold3|language=en|access-date=2020-05-27}}</ref><ref name=princeton>{{cite web|url=https://tigernet.princeton.edu/directory/searchDrilldown.asp?IDNumber=49495651514848504848|title=Victor Hammer '21|accessdate=2008-09-30}}</ref> was a businessman, founder and owner of the [[Hammer Galleries]] in [[New York City]]. He was the younger brother of [[Armand Hammer]]. Victor attended [[Princeton University]], where he graduated in 1921 with a degree in [[Art history|Art History]].<ref name=princeton /><ref name=ucla>{{cite web|url=http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/collections/2/|title=The Armand Hammer Collection|accessdate=2008-09-30|archive-date=2008-07-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703201642/http://hammer.ucla.edu/collections/2/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Victor was business partner to his brother [[Armand Hammer]] on several business ventures, including [[Hammer Galleries]] in [[New York City]], founded in [[1928]] as a way to funnel profits made in Soviet [[Russia]] out of that country.<ref name=galleries>{{cite web|url=http://www.hammergalleries.com/html/news.asp|title=Gallery News|accessdate=2008-09-30|archive-date=2008-09-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926195344/http://www.hammergalleries.com/html/news.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> At one point, [[British Intelligence]] believed [[Hammer Galleries]] was a front for [[Soviet Intelligence]].<ref name=amazon>{{cite book |last= Epstein |first= Edward Jay |title= Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer |publisher= [[Da Capo Press]] |origyear=1999-09-09 |edition= paperback |date=1999-09-09 |isbn=978-0786706778 |page=152 |quote= British Intelligence ... had even monitored the movements of his brother Victor in Egypt (then a British protectorate) on the suspicion that the Hammer Galleries were a front for the Soviet intelligence s