Kate Robinson Apr 26, 2021
Around 20 bidders showed up in person to the old Marconi station, now an auction warehouse, on April 24. Photos by: Kate Robinson
Some of the items up for auction.
Classic.
This little pedal car brought $6,750.
Items included soda shop furniture, although the oak-paneled interior of a country store was too big to bring to this warehouse.
Got milk?
MARION Going.going.gone!
Marion Antique Auctions held its first event in its new Atlantis Drive warehouse on April 24, which saw more than 500 items from a single collector draw thousands of online bidders.
The new space at 13 Atlantis Dr. was once the famous Marconi Telegraph Station, one of the largest in the world when it was built in the early 20th century.
8 major cultural trophies the USSR took home after WWII Public domain; Raphael/Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister; Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts The triumphant return of Soviet troops in 1945 was accompanied by large amounts of captured paintings, sculptures, books and gold - items of the world’s cultural heritage that had survived the flames of war. Later, many of these unique works of art were returned to Germany, but some stayed in the Soviet Union.
1. The collection of the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden
Raphael.Sistine Madonna Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Gallery in Dresden)
In February 1945, Allied forces - British and American - launched a massive aerial bombardment of Dresden, one of the most beautiful German cities, and it seemed the treasures of the famous picture gallery had perished in the terrible fire - the collection of the Electors of Saxony included paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giorgione and Vermeer, Bott
No delays in getting grapes to high humidity precooling: the way to avoid dry stems
The table grape industry’s problem with dry stems is well-known, says Jan Lievens, of UTE Applied Postharvest Technologies, but it is also wholly avoidable, he believes.
He refers to the presentation on South African grapes delivered by Oscar Salgado from SanLucar at the Global Grape Summit of 2020, in which Salgado noted “a strong discrepancy” between fruit in the field compared to its arrival, naming dry stems (rachis) a technical challenge to the South African industry.
Jan adds that the appearance of grapes is even more prominent this season, as sales are slower and grapes remain in storage for longer upon arrival.
In this installment, we shall consider the second of Luke’s canticles, the
Benedictus. However, like St. Luke himself, we must set the stage. Luke, a very precise historian, informs us of the exact time and place of the events we are about to read,
1 in the Temple during the reign of King Herod, when the priest Zechariah – from the family of Abijah – was on duty. Further, not only was Zechariah a priest but his wife Elizabeth likewise came from a priestly family.
We learn that the two spouses were “righteous,”
3 observing all the precepts of the Law. In spite of that, they were childless, then commonly seen as divine disfavor for infidelity to the Law. St. John Chrysostom offers an Old Testament context and a New Testament application: “Not only Elisabeth, but the wives of the Patriarchs also, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, were barren, which was counted a disgrace among the ancients. Not that their barrenness was the effect of sin, since all were just and virtuous, but ord