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WORLD MARKETPLACE NEWS with Managing Editor Judy Gonyeau

ATG – The Glasgow Women’s Library TUCSON, AZ – As the actor’s strike
has bought a hunger strike medal at continues as of press time, some shows
auction at Bonhams after more than 500 are moving ahead because they have no
people donated to help secure the piece “actors” but are unscripted “Reality
of suffragette history. The hunger strike Shows.” Tucson-area resident Daryl
medal was awarded by the Women’s Mallett has been acting as a hoard
Social and Political Union (WSPU) to finder, someone who scouts for the
Maud Joachim in 1909. It sold for antiques, collectibles and rusty gold, for
$50,500. Maud Joachim (1869-1947) the unscripted History Channel show,
was the niece of Joseph Joachim, the American Pickers, which is currently
violinist and composer. She allied herself with the radical wing of the filming its 25th season. According to
suffrage movement by joining the WSPU in 1907. In October 1909 Film Tucson, other shows shooting in
she was arrested in Dundee and during her stay in prison she the area include the popular HGTV
became the first to undergo a hunger strike in Scotland. show House Hunters.

ECOMMERCEBYTES – The 6th NEWBERRY, ENGLAND – The auction of British-known interior
Annual Amazon holiday toy catalog is decorator Robert Kime included furniture, silver, Asian art, antiquities
here, and it’s like a mashup of the iconic and Modern British pictures plus a stand-out group of folk paintings. In
Sears catalog and Highlights magazine. It the painting that drew the most attention, the artist and sitter were
even includes a sheet of stickers for both unidentified. The latter—who
children (and adults) to play with. The was shown dressed in aristocratic attire
catalog again features a cartoon fox (you but carrying the tools of an agricultural
can purchase the plush version on worker—was believed to be a member
Amazon, of course), and the theme this of the gentry. The inscription on the
year: “Amazon’s Holiday Dash,” with upper right gives the date of 1601 and
four racers: the fox, an owl, a raccoon, and a bear, each contributing to recorded the age of the subject
the story, and a fifth character makes a surprise entrance (no spoiler alert as 36. Estimated at $12,000-$18,000,
as to who wins the race). If you didn’t get an Amazon catalog, hang the painting sold for $500,000 to a
in there – Walmart may also be sending one again this year. U.S. Collector of Folk Art. Replete
with symbolism, the portrait is con-
sidered a morality painting, perhaps
NEW YORK – In an attempt to modernize how visitors experience relating to the sitter’s exclusion from
its 19th-century building, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is inheriting his “paternal” social status
planning to turn the large store off its Great Hall into an 11,500- and property.
square-foot gallery for its blockbuster Costume Institute exhibitions
and to transform an entrance
underneath the main staircase into ARTNET.COM – Renowned Ansel Adams Childhood Home
a retail space and restaurant that photographer and environmental-
will be open to the public even ist Ansel Adams’ secluded home in
when the museum is closed. Fund- the tony Sea Cliff neighborhood of
raising for the effort—estimated San Francisco, on the edge of the
at more than $50 million—is to Presidio, has hit the market for
be led by Anna Wintour, the $5.45 million. It’s the first time in
editor of Vogue and global editorial more than 50 years that his child-
director of Condé Nast. hood home has come up for sale. Photo of
Built by Adams’s parents in 1902 as an original
Arts and Crafts chalet on what were then house
SONOMA, AZ – Car collectors have a new place to store and care remote dunes, the residence grew to its
for their treasured finds. Clifford Casolla, the owner of Marshall’s current form in 1929 when an annex was
Body Shop in downtown built by architect Alfred Henry Jacobs
Glen Ellen, opened Sonoma under the direction of Adams and his wife.
CARcierge because he sensed
that some classic cars and
trucks sit more than they are NYT – The music director of a nonprofit North Carolina classical
driven and don’t receive the radio station said that the station would reverse course and air
care or storage they need. several contemporary operas being performed by the Metropolitan
Casolla notes that virtually Opera in New York this season that the station had originally said
all the cars stored in the were unsuitable for broadcast, citing their “adult themes and harsh
facility have some issues. “It language.” “It was a very hard decision,” Emily Moss, the music
is very rare to see an old car that has a clean bill of health, with no director of WCPE, a nonprofit station based in Wake Forest, said in
issues,” he said. “We would like to offer an all-in-one service for our an interview. “It’s been a hard day and a hard week.” The reversal
clients. If they are storing a car that needs a new headlight, battery, air came after the station faced widespread criticism once the letter
in the tires, a wash, detailing, body work, paint or a complete restoration and survey sent
from top to bottom, we can handle that for them.” Appraisal and sales by the Director
services are available because some clients are always looking to sell hit social media,
or purchase vehicles. sparking a large
response.

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