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WORLD MARKETPLACE NEWS with Managing Editor Judy Gonyeau
WINCHESTER STAR – A BOSTON GLOBE – A member of Fenway Park’s grounds crew dug
website that tracks vintage up an object in the field Thursday: an antique glass bottle estimated
motorcycle sales says a rare to be older than the beloved ballpark it called home. David Mellor,
Harley-Davidson motorcycle senior director of grounds for the Red Sox, posted a slideshow of the
built in 1908 has become the glass on Instagram, accompanied by the song Message in a Bottle by The
most expensive motorcycle Police. Based on its model, the bottle was last produced in 1910,
ever sold at auction. The according to Zineb Curran, a spokesperson for
Strap Tank Harley-Davidson, the Red Sox. The field and drainage system
as reported on vintagent.com, were completely renovated after the 2004
was sold for $935,000 after auction fees last month at a Mecum season so it’s “unusual to find such things
Auction in Las Vegas. The bike was named Strap Tank because its oil anymore,” she said. Fenway Park is the oldest
and fuel tanks are attached to the frame with nickel straps. The bike is professional baseball stadium still in use. The
believed to be one of only 12 such models in the world. A 1907 translucent bottle was worn but fully intact. “It
Strap Tank sold for $715,000 after fees but didn’t go for as much as has an interesting rounded bottom and cool
the record-setting 1908 Strap Tank because it was never restored. bubbles within the glass and a partial cork
still in the top,” Mellor wrote. The Red Sox’s
opening game is scheduled for March 30. Until
THE U.S. SUN – While recently speaking to Jeopardy! host Ken then, who knows what other mysteries the
Jennings, 48, Mira Hayward, a returning champion, shared she storied grounds may hold.
appeared on Antiques
Roadshow in 2004.
Sharing this on social NEW YORK, NY – J. Ross Baughman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning
media sparked a happy photojournalist, prepared to downsize into a new apartment in 2020.
post from AR saying To assist in shrinking his large collection, he reached out to
“We remember you Thomas Halsted, a Detroit-area gallery owner
fondly, too!” According who in the early 1970s had helped Baughman
to AR Appraiser Simeon acquire his first artwork, an Arbus print of a
Lipman, “Back in 2004, human pincushion. Halsted’s daughter,
Mira Hayward brought Wendy Halsted Beard, had inherited the
her grandmother’s shoe (which had been signed by Babe Ruth and business after her father’s death. Within a
Lou Gehrig in 1927) to Antiques Roadshow. I was fortunate enough to month, Baughman consigned the Arbus and
appraise it and was very impressed with her intelligence and poise.” 19 other prints. Their contract gave Beard
one year to sell the photos, which she valued
at $40,000. Three years later, Baughman has
VICTORIA BUZZ – A popular family book store in Victoria, B.C., not received a cent—or any of his cherished
had over $55,000 worth of antiquarian books stolen from the shop. images—back. Baughman, 69, is one of
The next day, the Victoria Police Department returned the property several victims in what the FBI has called a criminal scheme by
to its owners after an unusual chase. Shortly after the theft, the Beard to swindle older collectors out of $1.6 million worth of fine
suspect tried to enter an art photos. Beard has been charged with wire fraud and bank fraud.
empty multi-unit tempo-
rary housing property.
After the attempt to enter BEACHCONNECTION.NET – Following the pounding the West
proved unsuccessful, the Coast has received throughout the winter, the Oregon coast is filled
suspect responsible for the with old glass floats, fossils, agates, and
robbery left several books beaches that do not resemble what they
scattered around the block. once were. One thing to be on the look-
The misplaced books were out for is rare Japanese glass floats. For
then picked up by another collectors of all sorts of natural phenomena,
individual who later turned and for those that want to capture this
the items over to police. annual happening through photography,
Later that afternoon, the police found the suspect thanks to a there are “ghost forests,” 15 to 20-million-year-old fossils, and
closed-circuit camera and went to his location. Upon his arrest, the “concretions” – a rock formed around old dead things that had
suspect was found with $22,000 worth of stolen books in his sunk to the bottom of the sea.
possession. The investigation continues after new information has
found a second individual entered the business shortly after the
initial break and enter and had also stolen books. INQUIRER.NET – The Bureau of Customs at Ninoy Aquino
International Airport in Manila made a startling find: over $3 million
worth of “shabu” (methamphetamine) concealed inside an
ECOMMERCEBYTES – eBay prohibits antique French telephone in a Pasay City
the sale of government-issued IDs. But, warehouse. The century-old telephone has
it had reportedly turned a blind eye to baffled officials and civilians alike with its
selling vintage passports, Passport- discovery due to the unusual smuggling
Collector.com run by author Tom Topol method used to conceal it. “The parcel,
reported. Now eBay is cracking down on declared as an antique French phone,
such listings. It can be disconcerting to see arrived at the Port of NAIA from France on
the information displayed on older passports. Vintage licenses and January 30. Upon physical examination, it
passports of the famous (or infamous) are considered collectible for contained nine ounces of a white crystalline
the history they share. A review of the practice is now taking place. substance,” said the BOC in a statement.
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