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WORLD MARKETPLACE NEWS with Managing Editor Judy Gonyeau

LONDON – Two once lost important English sculptures are to be MEADVILLE TRIBUNE – Several
offered at auction May 18th, 2023 (post-publication date for this sections of antique Victorian-style
magazine). The first is the presentation model for the figure of brass and iron fencing was taken
Gratitude, part of the tomb of Dr. Chamberlen in Westminster from the grounds of the Baldwin-
Abbey. The terracotta figure was made c. 1728-1731 and was almost Reynolds House Museum, according
certainly the figure described and catalogued in the sculptor’s to Meadville Police Department. Each
studio contents sale of 1756. The stolen section weighs between 75 and
piece has been lost ever since. 100 pounds. The fencing sections
The other figure that was described total approximately 40 feet in length
and sold with Gratitude at that time, and are about three feet high.
was the terracotta model for the Security footage showed two suspects
central figure of the tomb. This loading the uninstalled sections
figure reappeared alone at Sotheby’s into a truck.
Auction held December 3, 1926, as
lot 68, bought by a Mr Belham for
£8,10s, then purchased by Dr W. L. TIBURON, CA – A collection of historic,
Hildburgh, F.S.A., and then given to colonial-era paper money printed by
the Victoria & Albert Museum in Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere has hit
1927. That figure remains in the collection of the Victoria and the auction market. The first of two auctions of
Albert Museum to this day. The story behind the creation of this the rare, early American money will be conducted
tomb is a particularly poignant one. Commissioned by Katherine, online by Kagin’s Auctions of Tiburon, CA on
Duchess of Buckingham, on behalf of her son, Edmund, (then a May 20 and a second auction will be held on
minor); it celebrates the life and work of the doctor who saved September 23. This money comes from the
young Edmund’s life. Both British sculptures were featured in the collection of John J. Ford, a prominent NYC
May 18th Opulence: Silver, Sculpture & Islamic Art auction at Curated collector who started to building his collection in
Auctions with an estimate of $25,000-$37,00. the 1940s. About 48 of the notes are printed
with the warning, “To Counterfit is DEATH.”
Some carry patriotic messages or symbolism, such as the “sword in
TIMES UNION – Behind the walls and fences of the Watervliet hand” design on some notes printed by Revere. There are 375 of
Arsenal stand eight historic houses that were homes for officers and Ford’s Colonial and Revolutionary War era notes that will be offered
non-commissioned officers and that helped give the cannon factory in the two auctions.
its status as a National Historic Landmark. The oldest residence
served as the commander’s quarters
from 1842 until it was last used in BBC NEWS – A new report by the Heritage Crafts charity in the U.K.
July 2018 and mothballed as the U.S. added 17 new crafts to their Red List of Endangered Crafts which
Army moved to stop providing contains over 259 crafts at risk of disappearing. The additions include
on-base housing at the arsenal. straw hat weaving, lacquerwork, building
Both the National Park Service and wooden boats, and the making of musical
the state Office of Parks, Recreation, bows. At least five traditional crafts are
and Historic Preservation have been believed to have disappeared from British
seeking ways to protect the arsenal’s historic character. Most options shores over the last 15 years. A “heritage
under consideration call for demolition. Three alternatives are being craft” is defined as “a practice which
heavily considered by the Army. Alternative 6 is to keep only the employs manual dexterity and skill at the
commander’s quarters and raze the rest. Alternative 7 is to keep the point of production, an understanding
commander’s quarters and an officer’s house built in 1849. Alternative 8 of traditional materials, design, and tech-
is complete demolition of all eight historic residences. niques, and which have been precticed for
two or more successive generations.
Mouth-blown glass has also made the list, and affects the ability to restore
TEXOMAS – A nearly historic stained glass windows in local churches or ancient buildings.
150-year-old stained-glass
church window that
depicts a dark-skinned NYT – In the world of vintage fashion, “senior cords” first appeared
Jesus Christ interacting at Purdue University in Indiana in the early 1900s, according to an
with women in New Test- archivist at the university, and evolved to become a sort of wearable
ament scenes has stirred yearbook for college and high school seniors in the state. Corduroy
up questions about race, clothes were used as canvases, illustrated with favorite activities, sweet-
Rhode Island’s role in the hearts’ initials and other personal details. The practice started to die out
slave trade and the place of women in 19th century New England in the 1970s. Fashion designer Emily Adams Bode Aujla is working to
society. The window was installed at the now-closed St. Mark’s revive the tradition through her Bode label.
Episcopal Church in Warren, RI in 1878, and considered the oldest The first senior cords were reportedly worn
known public example of stained glass where Jesus is depicted as a in 1904, when two Purdue seniors had some
person of color. The window has now been scrutinized by scholars, pants made with a yellow corduroy fabric at
historians, and experts trying to determine the motivations of the artist, Taylor Steffen Co., a tailor near the university.
the church, and the woman who commissioned the window in “By the time the class of 1905 was establish-
memory of her two aunts, both of whom married into families that ing their class traditions, the senior cords
had been involved in the slave trade. The church was purchased were a part of that,” the archivist said. “We
with the intent to turn it into a residence. The owner of the building are acting as conservationists and preserva-
stated, “I think this belongs in the public trust. I don’t believe that tionists to ensure this story is continued to be
it was ever intended to be a privately owned object.” told,” Bode Aujla, 33, said.
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