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WORLD MARKETPLACE NEWS with Managing Editor Judy Gonyeau

NYC & GERMANY – THE POINTS GUY – Each year on its birth-
Heron Preston—a designer day, Oct. 7, KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines)
who brought streetwear to unveils a new gin-filled miniature Delftware
high fashion in the 2010s house portraying a different real-world
with his collective Been Dutch house that is historically or architec-
Trill—has recently worked turally significant. The tradition reaches
with Cornelius Schmitt— back to the early 1950s when KLM was trying
who sent him a message two to deal with limits that were imposed on
years ago saying he had just the value of gifts that could be given to
figured out how to 3D-print a sock line material for a shoe—and released passengers. KLM figured out that because
200 pairs of fully-recyclable sneakers from Schmitt’s Zellerfeld their specially made little houses contained
company. The release is part of a beta-testing program that allows buyers liquor, they were technically not gifts but free
to trade them back to the company to have them reprinted into a new cocktails served in souvenir containers. The
pair when an update is available. The sneakers are cushiony and sort of workaround worked and a tradition was born.
reptilian – although actually avian, as Preston notes . “The very beginning Today the houses are highly sought-after collectibles, with the rarest
of Heron Preston, the collections, was the Heron bird. So I was like, “Let’s editions being sold online and in shops for thousands of dollars.
look at incorporating some inspiration from the bird’s feet.” Sneaker
collectors, start your engines.
THE MORNING CALL – A Lehigh Valley
Windsor chair maker, Frederick Duckloe &
THE ART NEWSPAPER – Twelve major art trade associations have Bros., that’s been in business since before the
launched a co-ordinated effort to stop looted Afghan cultural material Civil War, has closed its doors, citing the
controlled by the Taliban from becoming available on the Western COVID-19 pandemic and a bad economy.
art market. “Allowing such “We have been in business for 162 years, but the
artefacts to enter the market last few years of a bad economy and the effects
compromises the legitimate of the recent pandemic have forced us to close
art and antiquities market forever,” according to the business’s website.
and goes against our trade Fourth-generation owner Fred Duckloe said
associations’ professional and the store’s showroom will close at the end of this year or early next
ethical standards,” according year, depending on how long it takes current orders to be fulfilled, as well
to an open letter released as other variables. Duckloe’s historic colonial Windsor reproductions
by the associations. These can be found at Independence Hall in Philadelphia; the Smithsonian
include the Art and Antique Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington,
Dealers League of America, D.C.; City Tavern in Philadelphia; and Washington Memorial Chapel
the Antiquities Dealers’ Association, the British Antique Dealers’ in Valley Forge.
Association of Great Britain, and the International Association of Dealers
in Ancient Art. “The art trade must be prepared to do what it can to
ensure that any illicit cultural property coming out of Afghanistan SHEMAZING.NET – New data from eBay Ireland reveals the fashion
does not make its way on to the market. To that end, as trade associa- influence of Gossip Girl’s “It Girls” has returned alongside the series’
tions we will continue to alert our members and others to the heightened revival. Emmy award-winning costume designer,
risks involved.” – the letter signed by the twelve trade associations. Eric Daman, has been vocal about his use of
thrifted pieces to style the trend-setting charac-
ters in the show’s new revival. The popularity
BRING ME THE NEWS – A Twin for preloved pieces across the fashion category
Cities collectible store is appealing to soared, but one item has captivated savvy eBay
the public for help after losing a shoppers the most – the vintage cardi. New data
veritable treasure trove of merchan- from ebay.ie, reveals buttoned-up knitwear has
dise in a burglary – the second major been the most popular piece sought out by
break-in it has suffered in recent years. sustainable fashionistas on the marketplace,
Ultimate Collectibles’ store owners with a 22% increase in searches for vintage
took to Facebook to announce a cardigans alone throughout September.
$10,000 reward for information that
leads “to the apprehension and
conviction of persons committing GRAY MEDIA GROUP – On October 4,
theft.” The Facebook post included a 2021, the Mniconjou Lakota Tribe received
lengthy list of the stolen items, mostly baseball cards as well as some donations of a pistol and knife that belonged
Pokemon cards worth an estimated $160,000. Four years earlier, to Chief Spotted Elk (1826-1890), who was
thieves stole $100,000 worth of memorabilia from the store, including killed in the 1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee.
autographed goods, rare comic books and hundreds of baseball cards. Maine auction company Thomaston Place
Auction Galleries managed the transfer of
these important artifacts on behalf of an
CALIFORNIA NEWS TIMES – Long Beach, CA is a well-known anonymous client who wanted them returned
place for second-hand clothing stores and vintage bargains among to the Tribe. Chief Spotted Elk’s Smith &
locals and Hollywood performers. According to research conducted Wesson Schofield Second Model 45-caliber
by Workshopedia, Long Beach has 84.23 thrift shops per 100,000 single-action pistol was one of his possessions
inhabitants, with approximately 380 stores throughout the city, resulting later found in Geronimo-Mangas Caves (Canada). It is accompanied by
in the city being bestowed with the title “first in the nation” for documentation from Deborah Spotted Tail Elk, the Chief’s great-great-
thrifting-style shopping. granddaughter, confirming that this pistol was his.

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