Britain Losing War on Art Drain to Foreign Buyers
Britain faces a rapid outflow of national art treasures as wealthy collectors and museums, led by Americans, buy up works and ship them abroad. Paul Mellon holds hundreds of Constables and other major works. last year art exports topped $467.5 million. Government and conservation groups warn this erodes Britain's heritage, despite occasional rescues aided by private funds and limited export delays.
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London
Britain
Paul Mellon
United States
Switzerland
West Germany
Netherlands
Chase
Veronica Wedgewood
The
Art Collections Fund
Lord Rosebery
Mentmore Castle
Robert von Hirsch
Heritage In Danger
National Land Fund
Titian
Actaeon
Lord Harewood
Queen Elizabeth II
National Gallery
J. Paul Getty
Malibu
Calif
Taxed Estates and Art Losses Hit Britain’s Aristocracy
The pound’s decline and heavy inheritance taxes push aristocrats to sell estates and open houses to cover upkeep while the Labor government defends reduced spending amid a weakening economy. Some artworks leaving Britain hail from imperial times, acquired by means beyond auctions, illustrating a paradox of British treasures tied to conquest rather than sale.
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Lord Rosebery
Leggatt
Virginia and West Virginia Launch Gypsy Moth Eradication Plan
Virginia and West Virginia agriculture departments with USDA announce a cooperative program to eradicate gypsy moths along a 20 000 acre section of the Appalachian Trail near Loudoun County Virginia. The effort includes spraying next spring, three 10 day interval pest flights, and a projected cost of about 150 000 shared equally with USDA funding.
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West Virginia Agriculture
Gus R . Douglass
US Department of Agriculture
USDA
Virgins Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
West Virginia
Morgantown
DOH Named In Lawsuit Over Canawha City Walkway
The Department of Highways faces a $50,000 suit filed by Franklin D Mullins and Sarah Mullins of Charleston in the Court of Claims alleging negligence for not warning pedestrians about a disrepair along the 35th Street Kanawha City bridge. Mullins says he fell through a wooden walkway in September 1977, suffering cervical strain, spleen injuries, and a nervous condition. Another suit against DOH, by Arlie Humphreys of Morgantown, claims repainting his 1977 model pickup will cost up to $450 after being sprayed with red oxide bridge primer while passing under a bridge on U S 50 near Grafton. The first session of the First Congress of the United States, meeting in New York, submitted the Bill of Rights to the states on September 25, 1789.
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W.va
Department of Highways
Kanawha County
Kanawha City Bridge
Franklin D
Sarah Mullins
Mullins
35Th Street
DOH
Arlie Humphreys
Morgantown
Humphreys
U.S. 50
Grafton
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Princeton
Northfork
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Spotlight Bean Coffee
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Smithfield
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