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STOLEN CREDIT CARD SCAM, WATCH OUT!

A new type of credit card scam is believed to have resulted in one UK salvage yard being swindled out of two container loads of reclaimed material, but a Gloucestershire Salvo Code dealer who was also targeted by the same crooks managed to avoid being duped. Their two stories are outlined below.



The duped business was a UK salvage yard. The scam worked when a customer phoned a UK salvage yard ordering a delivery of materials to a remote location, in this case London. The customer paid the UK salvage yard by credit card, gave a false business name, and refused to give an invoice address or landline telephone number. The credit card payment was accepted by the PDQ and the goods were taken by the customers haulier. Four months later the credit card company charged back the full amount, the card had been stolen or cloned. The UK salvage yard had no delivery details to chase and so it lost the goods and was never paid.



The business which avoided being duped was a Gloucestershire Salvo Code dealer. The circumstances were the same as the story above, and a credit card payment was accepted. The Gloucestershire dealer used a credit checker called 'Risk Disk' to check 'UK Developers' which did not appear as a registered company. Alarm bells began to ring, so the Gloucestershire dealer phoned its card payment provider, Barclaycard, who told him that even though the security questions supplied were correct, if the card was stolen or cloned then the card company will refund a transaction, and seek to take the money back from the supplier of the goods. So the Gloucestershire dealer refunded the credit card payment and asked the customer to pay by bank transfer, which he refused to do.



The Gloucestershire dealer said "Beware of any new customer who supplies only mobile numbers and vague details, insisting on arranging their own collection, is often in a rush to pay and arrange collection and who backs out quickly without fuss when asked to pay by BACS, CHAPS or cash."



Any Salvo Code businesses wishing to know the name of the Gloucestershire dealer, who is willing to discuss this further, please contact Salvo by email.

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GET YOUR SOCIAL AND MEDIA LINKS ON YOUR SALVO DIRECTORY ENTRY

Businesses can now place social and media links on their SalvoWEB Directory entries. The directory is viewed by tens of thousands of visitors every month*. They will now be able to click on to your Twitter feeds, Facebook pages, blogs, photo galleries and video streams.



Instructions - How to add social and media links to your Salvo Directory entry:

1. Log into your SalvoWEB control panel

2. Go to 'Your Details'

3. Scroll down the page to see the new links fields and add your links. Include 'http : // www'

4. Click That's it!



* From 5 April to 4 May 2011 a total of 41,230 directory pages were viewed of which

28,213 were the UK directory on salvo. co.uk

9,065 were the world directory on salvoweb. com

3,952 were the USA directory on salvo. us

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RECYCLING FLASH MOB

A Canadian-French video of a flash mob about plastic recycling called 'Tested on Humans'.

The translated captions read:

-Each year, 671 million Kg of plastic are produced around the world.

-Each year, 400 million refundable bottles and cans are not recycled in Quebec.

-There are 18 000 pieces of plastic floating on every Km2 of ocean.

-91% of Quebecers care about the environment. Do you?

Youtube: Flashmob - Testé sur des humains - TVA

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Font from former home of J Y McPeake [photo Summers Place

GARDENS COME TO LIFE AT SUMMERS PLACE AUCTIONS

An important collection of 17th and 18th Century Italian marble sculpture will be offered in the hugely popular sale of Garden Statuary and Ornament - both antique and modern - at Summers Place Auctions (in association with Sotheby's) on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 which will take place in Billingshurst, West Sussex. This will be complemented by a sealed bid auction, which ends on Friday, May 27, 2011.



Many of the pieces in the collection are in the manner of Antonio Bonazza (1698-1762). Included is a pair of marble musicians on pedestals (est: £20,000-30,000) as well as a monumental 17th Century sculpture of Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion, which is estimated to fetch £50,000-80,000.



This sale includes pieces with estimates ranging from £100 up to £150,000, so there really is something for everyone, whether their garden is traditional or cutting-edge contemporary.  In these times of continued economic uncertainty, we are seeing an increasing number of buyers who want to put their money into more solid assets.



Of historical interest are two pieces removed from a garden in Frognal, North West London, which was formerly the property of J.Y.McPeake, who was one of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst's agents in England.  McPeake, an Irishman, was originally recruited by Hearst to publish the English version of Good Housekeeping magazine.  First published in 1922 it was an immediate success and ultimately enabled Hearst to purchase St Donat's castle in Wales in 1925.  Hearst used McPeake to purchase a number of pieces for him including a Medieval stone font and a 17th Venetian Istrian stone well head, which were never shipped to the USA, perhaps because of the Wall Street crash of 1929.  Both are estimated to fetch up to £5,000.



The sale is also particularly strong in period cast iron seats from the renowned Coalbrookdale foundry in Ironbridge, Shropshire - named after the first iron bridge over the River Severn and now a UNESCO world heritage site.  The company employed leading designers of the day such as John Bell and Christopher Dresser who often used timeless naturalistic motifs which are as fresh today as when first produced.  A Coalbrookdale 'Lily of the Valley' pattern seat circa 1870 is estimated at £3,000-5,000 and is one of over 100 lots of furniture included in the sale.



Modern sculpture is well represented and includes work by a number of emerging sculptors representing a good investment opportunity, which will also give pleasure for years to come! There are 10 lots by the wildlife sculptor David Cooke in the sale, including a stoneware ringtail lemur, which measures nearly six feet tall and is expected to fetch £2,000-3,000.



A good selection of 20th century British sculpture includes four pieces by Sean Crampton. Born in Manchester in 1918, the eldest son of an architect, Crampton fought with conspicuous gallantry in the Second World War winning the Military Cross and the George Medal after having a foot blown off by a mine. One of his bronzes in the sale, 'The Batchelors of Avebury' is estimated at £4,000-6,000 and was inspired by his wartime experiences.  Besides exhibiting at the Royal Academy and other institutional galleries, Crampton held 17 one-man shows in the West End of London over a period of nearly four decades.



Of local interest is 'The Little House' - a clapboard miniature house with clay hung tiles and fitted interior, together with a privy and garden, which is complete with raised stone beds with shrubs, box hedging and wrought iron railings.  Using old materials, it was made Peter Hill Jones who owns an architectural and scrap yard in Yapton, West Sussex. 'The Little House' is the original building that was later replicated as 'The Little Ranelagh House' and was exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show in 2009 and sold by Summers Place Auctions later that year.  Built on a scale of 7:1, it carries an estimate of £10,000-15,000.



A 268 page printed catalogue has been published and all lots can be seen on the website and at The Walled Garden, Stane Street, Billingshurst, West Sussex, RH14 9AB

Viewing times: 

Live and Sealed Bid Auctions

Friday, 20th May - Monday 23rd May: 10am - 4pm

And on the day of the sale

Live Auction comprising 120 lots 24th May at 1.30pm

Sealed bid Auction comprising 420 lots; bids opened on Friday 27th May

For further information on the auction call 01403 331331.

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IRISH LANDFILL TAX TO MORE THAN DOUBLE BY 2013

Phil Hogan, Minister for Environment in Ireland announced in April plans to increase landfill tax.  From September this year the tax will rise from 30 euros per tonne to 50 euros. Then in July 2012 it will increase to 65 euros and again in July 2013 to 75 euros per tonne.



Right now, disposal, which is the most environmentally unsound option for dealing with our waste, is the cheapest. That situation is simply not sustainable," Phil Hogan said. 



"By announcing these rates, I am providing the waste sector with the certainty that it needs to prepare for the changes that these increases will bring."

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Chatting to demolition site project manager [photo: Martin Godwin for the Guardian

DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DEMOLITION EXPERT

Mark King from The Guardian shadows demolition expert, David Strzelecki, project manager of Cantillon, whilst working on the Heygate Estate in South London. Health and safety, recycling and collapse are all mentioned in King's article.



"Standing amid the rubble of ruined buildings in a collapsing estate in London's Elephant and Castle, it feels like I'm caught in a futuristic, dystopian nightmare. The sound of machines munching concrete fills the air alongside equally discordant banging, crashing and splintering sounds, heightening my feeling of dislocation.



But it's not a bad dream and I am not alone in this strange environment. David Strzelecki, a demolition expert, stands alongside me, surveying the wreckage of what was once the Heygate Estate.



Its fate has been controversial, with some local community activists claiming the estate has only been failing in recent years as a result of neglect and, rather than knocking it down as part of a £1.5bn redevelopment of the area, Southwark council might have tackled problem areas, considered partial regeneration, or worked harder to help it evolve into a better place to live.



Regardless of the political or ethical pros and cons of tearing down this 1970s architectural hot potato, I'm here to shadow the work of Strzelecki as he goes about his job as project manager with demolition specialist Cantillon..."



For more, see the Guardian website.

Guardian: A working life: the demolition expert

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Turkish-Armenia friendship sculpture to be demolished [photo:BBC

TURKISH SCULPTURE OF PEACE TO BE DEMOLISHED

A thirty metre high mountain top sculpture of two figures shaking hands is currently being demolished after the Turkish prime minister called the sculpture a 'freak'.



The figures are situated near the Turkish city of Kar, on the border with Armenia. An artist was commissioned several years ago by the local mayor to create the piece to symbolise an end to a century of hostility with the neighbouring country which began in 1915. 



The sculpture was never completed after a number of objections by locals. It is located next to an 11th century shrine.

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NATIONAL CHURCH SURVEY RESULTS

The National Churches Trust conducted a survey in 2010 of the estimated 47,000 British churches, chapels and meeting houses. The aim was to discover the condition of the buildings, the way they are managed, used and funded. It was the largest survey of its kind, and groundbreaking in that it took place via a dedicated survey website.



In relation to the physical condition of churches the results showed:

- Many church buildings have key facilities, but there is room for improvement. Buildings with adequate heating, toilets or tea/coffee-making facilities are more likely to offer additional community activities. Nearly a third of churches lack toilets. Listed buildings are generally less well equipped.

- A critical number of churches need help. Whilst most buildings are in good or fair condition, a testament to the hard work of the churches themselves and external funders, 8% are in poor or very poor condition.

- Urgent repairs cost an average of £80,000, to those buildings in the survey sample in need of them. The most commonly required repairs identified as urgent are to roofs, heating and rainwater goods.



Andrew Edwards, Chief Executive of the National Churches Trust, said "Through a single, national survey we now have a better understanding of church buildings across the UK. The survey shows that open, accessible church buildings provide communities with a significant resource. Voluntary action that takes place locally often needs a physical space in which to happen, and it is clear that church buildings help fill that need."



"However, the survey also reveals these buildings' repair and maintenance needs, which can pose great challenges to those tasked with their care. Good maintenance practice is fundamental and the evidence of the survey backs our assertion that formal maintenance plans are essential."



The National Churches Trust is a non profit organisation that promotes the welfare of buildings of all christian denominations in the UK.

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1951 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN ANNIVERSARY

Sixty years since the Festival of Britain a commemorative exhibition is being staged on London's South Bank. Here is a link to an original 1951 colour film by the Crown Film Unit showing the Festival of Britain main site and its associated Battersea Fun Fair.



When the Lion Brewery was demolished to make way for the exhibition, a fabulous Coadestone lion was moved rather than destroyed, at King George VI's request, and still lies on the parapet of Waterloo Bridge by County Hall to this day. During the rescue operation, a hidden recess was found in the spine of one of the enigmatic beasts. It contained a note from the sculptor W F Wooding, who reported that work was completed on the birthday of Princess Victoria, 24 May 1837. There were also coins from the time of William IV and the traditional green bottle, in which was an advertisement for the firm of Coade.

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GETTING MARRIED IN A SALVAGE YARD

Environmentalist Emily Conlisk married Steven Tanner in an eco-friendly wedding at Sarasota Architectural Salvage on 16th April because Emily wanted a low impact wedding.



"Emily and I have been playing at Sarasota Architectural Salvage and helping the owner, our friend Jesse White, stage some of his items for about three years now, every time Emily would come to town," said Emily's mum, Gail Stephens, in the Sarasota Herald Tribune.



"She's an interior designer and can't resist places like Jesse's. In fact, Emily and Steven - - he just finished medical school - - met seven years ago in Home Depot where they both had part-time jobs while in college, she in the décor department and he in flooring. When we thought about doing a unique wedding, it occurred to us that since Emily is devoted to recycling and she loves to creatively repurpose everything, that a ceremony in the salvage yard side garden with the reception inside the store might be just the thing. When Emily was little I used to stage volunteer recycling efforts at her school. We'd collect, turn the recyclables in for money and eventually we raised enough for a playground at the school. I worked at Habitat for Humanity here in Sarasota, and my husband, Larry, runs the Habitat Resale Store in Manatee County. Our whole family is all about saving, repurposing and finding value and beauty in things you can find in places like salvage stores.



"Emily and Steven's wedding showed that you can have a beautiful romantic wedding on a small budget if you have imagination. And we all had an incredible amount of fun doing it because everyone got into the mode of sharing clothes and décor items. And so many friends volunteered to work at the salvage yard to put the event together that we bonded in an unforgettable way."



The bride wore a Grecian-style chiffon dress bought at a consignment store in Atlanta for $250. The veil was borrowed from a friend, and the ring bearer's pillow has been making the rounds of weddings in Emily's group.

Herald Tribune: Sarasota wedding: Something old, nothing new

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THREE PIGEONS WATER TOWER REVOLVING RESTAURANT APRIL FOOL

Lassco Three Pigeons in Oxfordshire announced on 1st April that they had bought the water tower overlooking the site and planned to turn it into a revolving restaurant. Most of the newsletter recipients realised it was a hoax, but a few were suckered. 



The newsletter proclaimed:

'In order to emulate the Magdalen College Choir atop Magdalen Tower for their dawn chorus - a 500 year old May Day tradition in Oxford - we are to have our own tower-top celebration at dawn on 1st May. We are pleased to have booked "Dead or Alive" who will perform their 1984 smash hit "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" as dawn breaks.'



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'. . . a continuous viewing window [will be] introduced to the outer concrete wall, and the gearing apparatus applied to the central cam-shaft. Remarkably, the panelled zinc-lined steel tank will float on olive-oil, principally powered by solar energy. A double lift-shaft and fire-escape will be introduced within the eight support posts with a small glass Maitre d' lobby at ground level. LASSCO will continue to house the lucrative phone masts on the roof which will, for the time being, prevent the development of the viewing platform and BBQ deck. Rotating at an optimum of 2revs per hour we anticipate that the diner will, in a three course sitting, take in the view at least twice. This is faster than the Water Tower Belvedere Restaurant in Aachen Germany that rotates every 56minutes. With London's BT Tower closed to the public (and seldom rotating) and St John's Beacon (Radio City Tower) in Liverpool now locked in place, the LASSCO Three Pigeons Tower will join Lakeview Restaurant at Elveden Forest as the only example of a rotating tower restaurant in the UK (Worldwide there are around two hundred: Iran has sixteen!) [See the Wikipedia link below]

True to our salvage origins we will be utilising the mahogany and wrought-iron lift-cars we extracted from Fortnum and Mason a few years ago and will press the curved oak panelling from The Oval Office into use in the restaurant, salvaged last year during President Obama's notorious White House refit on taking office.'

Wikipedia: List of revolving restaurants

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John Hobbs in Dreweatts posthumous catalogue [photo Dreweatts

OBITUARY: JOHN HOBBS

John Edmund Hobbs, who died in March 2011, had moved from the wild Fulham of the 1960s as a young man to become one of Britain's decorative antiques glitterati, only then to fall from grace in 2008 after he failed to pay his restorer Dennis Buggins who turned whistleblower and told the world's press that some of Hobbs antiques were very good fakes. He knew because he had made them.



Hobbs was born in St Albans in 1946, and moved with his family to Fulham where his father Sid ran a junk shop called Odds & Hobbs where Hobbs worked from the age of 14 after which he became a knocker.



The Telegraph obituary stated that he was 'a youth of striking beauty - described by the society antiques dealer Christopher Gibbs as looking as if he'd strayed from a band of angels in a quattrocento painting.' Hobbs apparently became the muse for playwright Nell Dunn while she was writing 'Up The Junction' and fathered Dunn's first child, Reuben, born in 1964.



The Telegraph states, 'For a period Hobbs was close with John Bindon, the notorious Fulham tough who had been his senior at St Mark's School, and together they discovered many interests in common - not least gambling, recreational stimulants and women . Like Bindon, Hobbs was prone to stray . By his own account, his younger self was no stranger to fencing stolen goods and housebreaking. One such foray, he claimed, was to the home of the politician and journalist Woodrow Wyatt. In the newspapers the next day, Wyatt trumpeted that he had seen off the intruders - but in reality, Hobbs asserted, he had hidden under the bedcovers shouting: Take what you want but don't touch me.'



In 1968 Hobbs reputedly lent property developer Nicholas van Hoogstraten a car used in the hand-grenade attack on the home of a Jewish leader whose son owed him £3,000. Hobbs had an affair with gossip columnist Nigel Dempster's new wife. Hobbs was still running furniture, joined by his younger brother Carlton Hobbs and by 1974 they had a shop in The Furniture Cave. 



Again, The Telegraph states, 'The early days at the "Cave" were perhaps Hobbs's happiest. The place had the air of a club - albeit a thoroughly disreputable one whose membership embraced an eclectic mix of dealers, housebreakers and pimps, not to mention a smattering of Old Etonians - where work often took a back seat to the serious business of poker and backgammon.' 



Carlton Hobbs began buying pieces in Europe, especially Biedermeier furniture, and also bought Russian furniture in Scandinavia. By now they had a shop in Pimlico Road, and high profile customers, such as Elton John, to match, and they had the exclusive services of Kent-based restorer, Dennis Buggins. In 1993 the brothers split and John Hobbs moved to a gallery behind Chelsea Barracks. In 2002 John Hobbs negotiated a £7 million guarantee to sell his stock at Phillips de Pury in New York. By 2005, Carlton Hobbs had moved his business to Manhattan.



Buggins had continued to work exclusively for both brothers. In 2007 Carlton filed a multi-million-dollar suit against the restorer, claiming that some pieces had not been delivered and that others were damaged. Fearful of the repercussions of this dispute, John Hobbs attempted to broker a settlement, but failed. Soon, he too was in litigation with the restorer. Hobbs sued Buggins in December 2007 for the return of £2m antiques plus interest and damages, although most of these claims were abandoned earl in 2010. Buggins countersued for £400,000 for fees, materials and storage charges for which he had invoiced Hobbs shortly after the termination of their relationship in August 2007, but which remained unpaid.



After being forced to shut down his workshop and sell his home Buggins decided to go public with allegations against John Hobbs, even if an injunction prevented him from discussing Carlton Hobbs. Dennis Buggins other business, Extreme Architecture, was having a better time, having sold the IRA bomb damaged Baltic Exchange building to two Estonian businessmen for £800,000 - one of the most spectacular sales of architectural salvage ever.



In April 2008, The Sunday Times ran a front-page article entitled: "Whistleblower reveals £30m antiques scam". Buggins claimed that since 1992 his workshop handled 1,875 items for Hobbs, more than half of which involved major alterations or outright inventions. Photographs and records provided by Buggins showed how he had transformed ordinary pieces of furniture into high-end antiques. Such had been Hobbs's demand for period wardrobes, he alleged, that it had even been necessary to rent a barn in which to store them.



The embellished items were then attributed by Hobbs to the great cabinetmakers of the past, and described as "rare" and "significant". One such invention, described by Hobbs as a "large and important gilt metal mounted mahogany pedestal partners desk, early 19th-century in the manner of Marsh and Tatham", had an asking price of £1.2 million. Buggins claimed he had designed the desk himself and the cost for labour and materials had been £100,000.



Fearing the attentions of the law and his clients, Hobbs shipped much of his stock over to Switzerland and closed his gallery, insisting that the timing was incidental: "We're taking this opportunity to redecorate, that's all." But it never reopened. The British Antique Dealers' Association suspended him. Carlton, back in the States, swiftly reached an undisclosed settlement with Buggins, understood to involve a payment of more than a million pounds to the restorer.



The restorer's revelations provoked great anxiety among decorators - and their clients - around the world. That June, a pair of commodes that Hobbs had sold to a Swedish businessman for £395,000 in 1997 was withdrawn from a Sotheby's sale in New York after a tip-off from a journalist. The catalogue described them as German neo-Classical, circa 1800, with a high estimate of $300,000: but Buggins produced evidence that he had made them out of a few old wardrobes and cedar from a local timber merchant.



For Hobbs, the impact was ruinous. His stock, when he could sell it, was now worth only a fraction of its previous value. He faced escalating legal bills and a large unanticipated tax demand. Worse, his health - he had been diagnosed with cancer in 2004 - was fast deteriorating. He finally reached a settlement with Buggins at the High Court last November, moments before he was due to be cross-examined. The agreement involved a substantial cash payment, again to the restorer, and the legal costs of both sides were thought to have reached more than £1 million.



Again the Telegraph puts it, 'Hobbs was charismatic and capable of attracting real loyalty. But he understood when and how to apply menace, and was a doughty litigant, whose long-running disputes with Jacob Rothschild , the French and Italian authorities, and Buggins kept many lawyers in clover. He also had a self-destructive personality and a gambler's disregard for consequences. He spent most of his life battling addictions to drink and drugs and was prone to depression.'



He married first, in 1987 (dissolved 2002), Lola Wigan, the daughter of the Dorset racehorse breeder Dare Wigan. He married secondly, in 2003 (dissolved 2008), Dolores King. He also fathered two further children, a daughter, Rebecca, with Loretta Land in 1967, and a son, Rupert, with Sonia Dean in 1970 (he also assumed paternal responsibilities for her daughter, Elly).



John Hobbs died on March 13 at his flat in Putney. He was working on his memoirs, to be titled Honest John.

Daily Telegraph: John Hobbs

SalvoNEWS: Dennis Buggins settles his dispute with John Hobbs

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BOOKS: AGAINST ALL ODDS BY JULIE EURICH

Set between quiet rural England and the madness of LA, 'Against All Odds' is a true story of a young English woman's 8 year battle for full custody of her 2 year old son. An emotional roller coaster ride, involving a psychopathic Ex. This plot discovers a world of under cover agents, illegal guns, class A drugs and prostitutes. It points out some of the difficulties and frustrations of International Law and takes a look at The Hague Treaty and its laws regarding child abduction. This is a 'must' read for all of those youngsters before they go off on their ' year out traveling' and would make anyone take a longer, harder look at our world as a global village and our choice of setting up a family abroad. In today's global village, this is a 'must' read for the education of young women around the world. [Publisher's statement



A reviewer, Neville, was captured by the following, 'Conkers, these beautiful shiny round seeds that kids take to battle in the playground. The sound of crows in the spinney on a miserable grey day. Accents that change ever so slightly, every 5 miles or so. Poppy fields. Cow shit. Galones Ice cream van ringing its obnoxious bell on a hot Saturday morning"



This books is about the child custody battle between Berdine Lavoy, owner of European Reclamation and Historic Tile Co in Los Angeles, and his estranged English wife Julie Eurich who is now running a ceramic tile company in Northamptonshire UK. In their heyday the couple supplied tiles to many prestige projects in the USA as well as to the Tower of London.

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Bridge of reworked iron, oak and cedar by David Le Versha £2,800 [photo Gaze

TOO MUCH GARDEN FURNITURE AND UNWANTED SUNSHINE AT GAZE'S

"It was far too sunny," said expert in charge, Carl Willows of T W Gaze in Diss about the architectural sale on 16 April. "And an incredible amount of garden furniture, just so much of it. There were also more trade than private bidders this time, and only so much garden furniture a group of people will buy. So I was a little disappointed in the 73 per cent sold by lot which is lower than normal."



A batch of 42.65sqyds of York flagstones sold for £4,400 (plus 12.5% BP +vat) roughly £103sqyd. This batch was good but not of the highest quality which has seen prices hit £192sqyd at Gaze's this year. "Every time we have a good batch there are three or four bidders who miss out, and they often come back and bid next time. I agree that the consistency of the prices achieved relative to quality is slightly uncanny," Mr. Willows said.



A 4ft millstone 6ins thick made £460, an oblong Coalbrookdale table base without top £1,400, a York stone trough 64ins by 30ins by 20ins with a flattened D front rounded edges £1,450, the Biddulph Old Hall sundial got away this time at £4,000, and a batch of 44sqyds of oak boards £2,500. There were also some post-auction sales including the figure of Saint Anthony of Padua which made £1,250.



Carl Willows plans to bring an elephant and a rhinocerous to this year's Salvo Fair, prior to their sale at the Architectural Sale the following Saturday 2 July 2011.

Gaze: 16 April 2011 Architectural Salvage and Statuary

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OLD PINE BARGEBORDS CHEAP AT CAMEO

What appeared to be some, maybe three, decorative Victorian carved pine bargeboards sold at Cameo Auctions of Berkshire for £30 (plus 15% BP live, 18% BP online) estimated at £50-£80. The sale, entitled 'Victorian Pine and Architectural Items' was a clear out by a restorer or stripper, and had plenty of unrestored antique pine furniture including an 11ft pine table which sold for £650 (est £100). Of the more architectural lots, a pair of painted terracotta Corinthian pilaster capitals sold for £320 (est £80), and two lots of stained leaded glass 'in the style of William Morris' sold for £700 and £420 (est £100, £50).



Note about bargeboards: Wikipedia states: 'Bargeboard (probably from Medieval Latin bargus, or barcus, a scaffold, and not from the now obsolete synonym vergeboard, is a board fastened to the projecting gables of a roof to give them strength and to mask, hide and protect the otherwise exposed end of the horizontal timbers or purlins of the roof to which they were attached. Bargeboards are sometimes moulded only or carved, but as a rule the lower edges were cusped and had tracery in the spandrels besides being otherwise elaborated.' Traditionally, bargeboards were left exposed if they were hardwood or sometimes painted black, dark brown or green, if they were softwood. They were never painted white - a modern invention which quickly rots exposed otherwise sound wood - as discovered by Henry Ford whose apocryphal 'You can have it any colour you like as long as it's black' was the result of many years study of longevity and durability of paint colour.

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THE ART OF FLOORING

With the much anticipated opening of the new Zaha Hadid designed Glasgow Riverside Transport Museum just around the corner local artist Patricia Cain has been tasked with documenting the unfolding construction works over the last two years. 



With over 100 drawings, paintings and sculptures completed an exhibition of these works is opening in the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery on Friday April 15th and running until August 14th 2011.



Having supplied the artist with a selection of our 110mm reclaimed Clyde Oak flooring for use in this art installation the team at McKay Flooring Ltd would like to extend our best wishes to Patricia and all involved in the exhibition.

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COMMENTS SOUGHT ON CMRA RECYCLING CERTIFICATION IN USA

A new Certification Program for Reuse and Recycling of Building Materials is proposed by the USA Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA). Public comment is sought on the first version of the national Certification of Recycling Rates (CORR) program guidelines by April 20, 2011. 



The CORR program is a national third-party certification program designed to verify building materials debris reuse and recycling rates by construction and demolition reuse and recycling facilities operating in the USA. 



The CORR certification standards were developed by the CMRA and a stakeholder group involving environmental non-profits, architects, academia, government agencies and the recycling industry. The CORR will provide the C&D reuse and recycling industry with a means to communicate their management of construction-related materials debris to the general public and the construction industry. It will provide confidence to the general public and the construction industry of the reuse and recycling rates reported by C&D reuse and recycling facilities. The goals of the certification program include:

• Provide a procedure for accurately accounting for the materials inputs and outputs of a C&D reuse or recycling facility.

• To provide an objective and transparent process for eligible firms seeking to communicate their reuse and recycling of C&D materials.

• To provide users of certified facilities an assurance that the procedures and reuse and recycling declarations are consistently applied and verified.



The certification begins with an application by the firm, and either the qualification of procedures in place, or establishing the procedures required to measure and report the facility's materials flow.  The certification process includes site visit(s) and the verification by a third-party certification entity of the quantities and types of reused or recycled materials produced by the facility on a monthly and annual basis. Outputs are classified as:



• Reuse

• Recycle

• Bio-Fuel

• Alternative Daily Cover

• Disposal

CMRA: Public Comment Period Open CORR  Certification of Recycling Rates for C&D Recycling Facilities

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DEFINITIONS OF REUSE AND RECYCLING - AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH WASTE

There is confusion as to how to define reuse, recycling and waste with respect to everyday terminology, and EU and UK laws and regulations. In everyday language you can reuse something which would otherwise end up as waste, but in EU law anything which will be reused cannot, by definition, be waste. So reused objects can never be waste in EU, and therefore UK, law. However, you can recycle waste by making something else out of it.



This is intended to be a discussion document, so please add any comments or alternative definitions in the comments section below.



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Definition of Reuse and Recycling for the forthcoming BS8905 Guidance on the sustainable use of materials, 2011: Thornton Kay's suggestion wording is:



Reuse is the use of an antique, reclaimed or salvaged product, using relatively small amounts of usually human energy, and saving a substantial amount of the embodied energy of the original product. An example of reuse would be the careful removal and cleaning of bricks during the demolition of a building and prior to their reuse as reclaimed bricks. Reuse is usually, or ideally, a completely or nearly reversible process. Reuse includes handmade and low-tech recrafting or remanufacturing, such as the sawing of reclaimed timber beams into planks for use as flooring or joinery. The removal of unused new products from the waste stream and their first use is also considered reuse. An example could be the recovery of over-purchased or remaindered new bricks from a skip at a new building project and their resale at a social enterprise secondhand store for reuse by a customer in another building project.



Recycling is the creation of a new product, normally using large amounts of mechanical or thermal process energy to convert the feedstock material derived from a previous or past use. The embodied energy of the original feedstock material is normally destroyed. Recycling is usually a completely or nearly irreversible process. An example of recycling would be the mechanised crushing and screening of bricks from demolition to create a weak aggregate substitute. Recycling includes mechanised and high-tech remanufacturing such as the chipping of scrap dimensional timber to provide a mulch for municipal flower beds.

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're-use' (sic) means any operation by which products or components that are not waste are used again for the same purpose for which they were conceived;



'recycling' means any recovery operation by which waste materials are reprocessed into products, materials or substances whether for the original or other purposes. It includes the reprocessing of organic material but does not include energy recovery and the reprocessing into materials that are to be used as fuels or for backfilling operations;

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Institute of Civil Engineers Demolition Protocol 2008



To Reuse: Buildings/infrastructure, products, components etc recovered for use without reprocessing activities or alterations to their characteristics. In situ reuse could refer to the refurbishment of a building, involving the reuse of the steel frame, without any disassembly. Ex situ reuse is synonymous with reclamation, and involves the disassembly or removal of products/components prior to their reuse.



To Recycle: To take a product/component (e.g. concrete block) and, because of the nature and characteristics of its constituent material, put it through a reprocessing activity. The output will be a material which can then be used in a range of products and applications, including its previous use.

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Pushing Reuse by T Kay, BioRegional 2009



Reuse in construction takes place when building material is carefully dismantled, removed and reclaimed, usually with simple tools and hand labour which expend low process energy. The reclaimed material is then reused, largely in its originally manufactured state, and often for its original purpose.



Recycling takes place when buildings materials are collected during demolition to be re‐processed into lower quality materials.

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Terms and concepts: Reuse/recycling/recovery and secondary good

Methodologically, all the different forms of e.g. reuse, recycling, and recovery of energy are

equivalent in LCA. This covers e.g. reprocessing of production waste, regeneration of

nuclear fuels, restoration of buildings, reclaiming or recovering energy, reusing and further

using of parts or goods, refitting of parts for other goods, repair, rehash, etc. To ease

reading, all these forms are reusing/recycling/recovery document, unless specifically differentiated. A common cover term could not be identified and the most

widely understood term "recycling" was found incorrect as being too narrow.

Note that the terms used here do not imply any legal meaning but relate exclusively to the

use in LCA methodology.

The product of these processes i.e. the recycled material, recovered energy, or reused or

further used part or good etc.

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USA Design for Reuse Primer, p3, Public Architecture 2010



Reused, or reclaimed, materials are materials extracted from the waste stream and repurposed without further processing or with only minor processing that does not alter the material's nature. Old bricks cleaned of their mortar and used to create a new facade, wood beams remilled into flooring, and wood from packing crates fashioned into window trim are all examples of reuse. Reuse is not to be confused with recycling. Recycling also involves removal of materials from the waste stream, but those materials undergo significant processing to con- vert them into new products. Waste paper reduced to pulp and then combined with pulp from new wood to produce new paper is a form of recycling.

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MaryEllen Etienne (Reuse Alliance, USA):

Reuse is extending the life of an item by using it more than once (same or new function). This includes conventional reuse where the item is used again as-is for the same function it was manufactured for, refurbishing/remanufacturing where an item is re-conditioned and used for the same function, or upcycling/repurposing where the addition of creativity brings a new function.  In contrast, recycling is the breaking down of the used item into raw materials which are used to make new items. By taking useful products and exchanging them, without reprocessing, reuse help us save time, money, energy and resources. In broader economic terms, reuse offers quality products to people and organizations with limited means, while generating jobs and business activity that contribute to the economy.

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GETTING ECLECTIC IN KANSAS AND ORIGINAL IN LINCOLN

"It's all about using key pieces here and there to achieve an eclectic look. Rarely does anyone decorate all in one period or style," says Patrick Ottesen, owner of Foundation Architectural Reclamation in Kansas City, Missouri, writes Rhiannon Ross in Discover Mid America magazine.



"The growing appeal of architectural salvage can be attributed to its expert craftsmanship, connections to the past, and aesthetically appealing details such as a fine patina, intricate trim work or hand carvings," Ottesen says. "People can either go to Home Depot to get some new oak or they can go to an architectural salvage place and get some old oak," he says. "Someone might look at bundles of antique flooring and say its just rubbish, but by using Tung oil finish and polyurethane, we can create something beautiful."



"There's an interesting fusion now between preservation and architectural salvage," Ottesen says. "We used to be the enemy. But now, architectural salvage is the key to putting preservationists' dreams back together."



Formerly an architectural student before opening Foundation, his own architectural salvage business, five years ago, Ottesen hails from Chicago. Interior designer Nate Berkus, of The Nate Berkus Show and Oprah Winfrey's designer, was one of his customers when he worked at Architectural Artifacts, Inc. in Chicago.



In his trendy space, located within the red-bricked walls of a former manufacturing plant in Kansas City's West Bottoms - an industrial area that's been reclaimed and transformed by area artists - Ottesen suspends wainscoting, doors and stained glass windows from the ceiling.



"In the last four to five years, we've seen a move toward more remodeling when previously we've seen demolition," says Sid Conner, owner of Conner's Architectural Antiques in Lincoln, Nebraska. "We deal with people doing restoration on houses and more than 50 percent of our customers want to take their houses back to their original states. They're replacing doors or maybe they're opening up a staircase that's been closed. Or, people wish to match the hardware in restoration."



Conner and his wife opened their architectural salvage business in 1974 after they purchased an 1899 Victorian home.



"It was in need of many items for restoration that we found very difficult to find. As a result, a business just naturally grew out of those searches and the networking with others. Some would ask that in our quest if we found such and such to let them know, as they were also trying to restore or refurbish a home," Conner says.



"In kitchens, people are placing decorative eaves brackets below a kitchen bar or using tin ceiling as a backsplash in the kitchen or as a backdrop in cabinets. And we're selling fireplace mantels to newer homes," he says. "We've also seen an uptake in architectural hardware, especially Victorian hinges, doorknobs, lock sets, back plates in cast brass or cast bronze. People also are interested in ornate, cast bronze mechanical doorbells from the Victorian era and even window sash locks."



Both Sid Conner and Patrick Ottesen extol the green virtue of reuse of salvage, and the uniqueness which using salvage offers their customers.



[Taken from an article by Rhiannon Ross called 'Architectural salvage adds personality to home décor' on Sid Conner and Patrick Ottesen in the March 2011 edition of Discover Mid America

Discover Mid-America— March 2011: Architectural salvage adds personality to home décor

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ARRAS SEATS CHASED TO $7,600 AT KAMELOT

A pair of Arras seats labelled 'Usine S Sauveur Arras' sold for $7,600 at the 700 lot garden and architectural sale at Kamelot Auctions held on 9 April 2011. Top lot was a set of 21 Tiffany lampshades etched 'L C T Favrile' recently removed from a church in upstate New York which sold for $11,500. A pair of finely modelled bronze deer marked 'Sab de Angelis & Fils. Naples 1907' sold for $10,500. A pair of Regency mirrors sold for $4,800 (est $400). Several impressive lots of stained glass were among the lots which failed to sell.



The next architectural sale will be held at Kamelot on 19 November 2011.

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GAZE UPCOMING ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE AND STATUARY SALE

Among the many lots at this Saturday's architectural salvage and statuary sale at T W Gaze in Diss is a bridge recrafted from antique iron and reclaimed oak and cedar by garden furniture and accoutrement designer and maker, David Le Versha. The bridge is estimated at £2,900-£4,350 and he has also entered a recrafted iron zinc-lined Wardian case at £1,250-£1,850.



There are also other higher value pieces of carved sandstone statuary from a church in Clacton, a large early 19thC sundial from a sunken garden at Biddulph Old Hall, a set of four coloured glass Georgian lancet-headed windows, Cotswold paving from the Miller's House Upper Braills, a pair of carved stone Bath stone altar plaques from St Barnabas Church in Bristol, and a c1850 carved marble bust from Wentworth Hall in Yorkshire. Plus of course the normal plethora of early and modern concrete ornament, iron gates railings and fireplaces, flagstones, oak and other flooring, bathroom facilities, trade catalogues, all ranging in estimate from £20 to £5,600.



See the link or the Salvo Calendar for more details.



Note: Mr Carl Willows will be putting in a customary appearance at the forthcoming Salvo Fair, and his company T W Gaze & Sons are kindly sponsoring the event again. Please book your ticket to the trade day at the link below.

TW Gaze: Architectural Salvage & Statuary

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THOMAS CRAPPER THE RACEHORSE

Simon Kirby, antique sanitaryware dealer and restorer, and successful owner of period sanitaryware maker Thomas Crapper & Co, is now a part owner of an epynomous racehorse trained at Alscot Park stables. Thomas Crapper (aka Bwian) was purchased as a foal, and has been carefully produced by trainer Robin Dickin as a future National Hunt chaser. He is now ready to run. Mr Kirby is aiming to put together a partnership of 20 people to enjoy the fun of racing him, and hoping that the majority of the group will be made up of local individuals with a connection to the Alscot Estate.  



The costs involved are £400 initial outlay to purchase a 1/20th of the horse and thereafter £100/month in 'running costs'. The group is run from the office at Robin Dickin Racing, and there will also be a designated website for the group.



Simon Kirby writes, 'The equine Mr. Crapper finished in a creditable second place at Warwick in March, and this was only the second time he has raced! The trainer has great hopes for this horse. Should be fun, anyway.'

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WABI-SABI HOUSE

Robyn Griggs  Lawrence introduced many to the 15th century  Japanese philosophy of Wabi -sabi and her new book, 'Simply Imperfect: Re-Visiting the Wabi-Sabi House' is available from 10 April. 



Wabi-sabi can be interpreted as serene simplicity combined with the appreciation of aged beauty. Objects for the home are chosen with care and love, to last the distance of time, which also supports the philosophy of caring for the environment. 



Wabi-sabi styling is not to be confused with shabby chic, which can give a cluttered interior. Simplicity is key, so Robyn suggests having a clear-out, getting rid of things that are not used, and keeping objects that are loved and that have an emotional connection. These are often items in harmony with nature or with a link to a place or person. The aim is to create a comfortable environment which brings joy. But it also accepts the transience of life. Items loved and cared for can be appreciated by someone else in the future. 

 

Sabi is character and beauty in age and imperfection.  Objects can show the marks of time and still be beautiful. Compare the beauty, individuality and a solidity of a reclaimed wood floor to the dull uniformity and squeekiness underfoot of a laminate or new thin veneer floor. Robyn argues that one should not be afraid to be unconventional either. It is more interesting to find unique objects with attributes such as the individuality of handcrafted items and furniture that does not  match.



Wabi is creating space in the home for peace and relaxation. An example could be a special comfy chair in the bedroom away from the noise of modern life. Another example inspired by the Japanese tea ceremony, is tea not rushed relaxing with friends and family. This is a reminder of old fashioned English teas. So use real tea leaves in a teapot with cups and saucers and a lovely plate of homemade cakes.  But using the ideas inspired by wabi-sabi the antique china does not need to match. 



To find unique items with aged beauty shop in your local architectural salvage yard, look on Salvoweb, or at charity shops, markets and fairs. Don't forget the Salvo Fair  is at Knebworth on 25th and 26th June. Once discovered wabi-sabi could change your life.



Robyn Griggs Lawrence is USA writer and editor of Mother Earth News, Natural Home and Herb Companion magazines, who also speaks on topics ranging from green building, spiritual design and organic gardening.

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THE INDEPENDENT'S HANDY GUIDE TO ONLINE JUNK

Kate Burt, The Independent's affordable interiors expert, has written a brief guide to rummaging online, with eleven key websites, kindly including SalvoWEB for architectural salvage, and - a surprise to us - Oxfam's online store with vintage fashion, cameras, books, DVDs and so on. Check it out!

The Independent: How to find nice junk online

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UK LANDFILL TAX ESCALATES AS REUSE OF RECLAIMED BUILDING MATERIAL DROPS

The UK landfill tax has increased in the 1st April budget by £8 from £48 to £56 per tonne for 'active' waste, or anything which rots including timber. Active waste also includes mixed waste, but not hazardous waste. The tax for inert waste, such as bricks, stone and concrete, remains £2.50 per tonne. The landfill tax escalator will continue to increase until 2014 when it will be £80 a tonne.



Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP, kindly put a question to the government from one of her constituents, asking whether the increase in landfill tax has resulted in more reuse. The letter was passed, not to George Osborne, who put up the tax, but to Lord Henley at Defra.



Lord Henley, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, replied to Ms Lucas' question, but failed to answer it. His reply mentioned recycling of construction and demolition waste, but not reuse, except to state that WRAP has been encouraging recycling and reuse through schemes such as Halving Waste to Landfill. He is correct about WRAP encouraging recycling (crushing, composting and burning), but wrong about it encouraging reuse.



Reclaimed stone reuse dropped from 1,500,000t in 1997 to 800,000t in 2008, and reclaimed timber reuse dropped from 700,000t in 1997 to 350,000t in 2008. The figures are from the BigREc Surveys of 1997 and 2008, commissioned by Defra.



It seems that the landfill tax has not encouraged reuse. Arguably, instead it seems to have resulted in reusable material, such as reclaimable stone, being diverted from reuse to recycling (crushing) and reclaimable timber being diverted from reuse to Energy from Waste (being burnt).



So, although the landfill tax may be good for raising money and encouraging recycling of domestic waste, it is bad for reuse and has resulted in an overall reverse in the amount of reclaimable building material being reused.



The continued downward trend in reuse will eventually put the government in a tricky position because under the 2008 EU Waste Framework Directive it must prioritise reuse over recycling and energy from waste.

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