TZAIMS TRISTES APPRETS

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO AUCTIONEERS, ANTIQUE DEALERS, COLLECTORS INTERNATIONALLY, NATIONALLY, US POLICE, AND AND INTERPOL!

THE PHOTOGRAPHS IN THIS POST ARE OF THE CONDITION OF THE ART TREASURES AND WAY
Tzaims Luksus cared for and lived among his
Buckthoren Hall House Museum.
He left on a short rip on 15 January 2020, and this is how things looked and how he kept the condition of his property.
These photograps are an inventory of his possessions which by Town of Bennington and the Village of Old Bennington, Vermont, USA has allowed TRESPASSING, vandalism and looting to his house and possession whilst he was absent.
If any of these item show up being for sale know they are stolen.
NOTICE
An underground crime ring trading in stolen goods is operated by Bennington
police families in the 7th Ward west in theown of Bennington. When Bennington teen aged boys robbed my house 5 times over the years, when I caught them, they claimed they sold stolen items to Bennington Police families and their leading police family was located on a forked road from Route 7 in the 7th Ward.

This house Museum theft of Tzaims Luksus, FRSA, is the greatest art theft since the robbery of the Isbella Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts on 18 March 1990.

Additional inventory photos will be added here continuing as found in his photo archives.
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TZAIMS
TRISTES APPRETS
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ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
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Deh non fare coile tua lagrime
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STOLEN ITEMS
FROM
BUCKTHORNE HALL MUSEUM PROPERTY
OF
TZAIMS LUKSUS, FRSA
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TZAIMS
TRISTES APPRETS
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VINTAGE
CUSTOM ORDERED AND BUILT
1961
MERCEDES BENZ
220SE
CABRIOLET
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Drop Head
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NEW YORK & PHILADELPHIA
SHOW CAR
ONE OF A KIND
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Black Enameled Engine Block
Cast stainless
First
Fuel Injection
First
Locked Steering,
Sealed Bottom
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Dash Board
Zebra Mahongany Wood
BLAUPUNKT
Barcelona 200
AM-FM
STERIO
RADIO
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Speed Limit 119 zMph
Driven for
80,000 miles
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Back Seat
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Hood Ornament
Stolen and Body Vandalized
in
2023
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BUCKTHORNE HALL
MAIN GATE
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The conditions of my Buckthorne Hall Estate runs deep and complicated and in today's economic situation, only a very wealthy person could afford to buy or use it.
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Looking through filigreed Iron Gates
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Balinese Iron Gates
With
Gold Leaves Front Gates
with
Gold Buddha Head Lock
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Since it is a Vermont Historic Heritage property both State of Vermont Preservation Agency, and Village of Old Bennington, also the whole village being aa historic site, the ordinances are stiff and rigid.
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The first thing required by a new owner is to insure it. Being a Heritage property means nothing inside or outside can be altered but lived in as is or restored exactly as first built.
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The mansion has original electric wiring from 1914., double copper wiring covered in silk and painted over, exposed and mounted on ceramic brackets with original light switches and fuse boxes in kitchen wing and basement, all still in excellent working order like new and beautiful as well as safe from Squirrls chewing buried vinyl wiring.
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Finest Restored
American Cypress Shingle Style
Vintage Historic House and Gardens
in Vermont
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Heritage conditions doesn't allow removal or changing electrical wiring to update to present code conditions.
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Insurance companies won't insure any dwelling with antique wiring and also requires all repairs and code updates, restoration with inspections.
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These repairs in today's market would cost at
least $2.Million USD or more.
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That is just for insurance approval.
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The insurance now is not based on market or accessment value but on Replacement value. Thirty five years ago replacement value was $20.Million USD.
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Thirty five years ago Farmers and other insurance companies estimated full replacement for Buckthorne Hall construction was $20. million USD
The monthly premium based on this is astronomical.
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If Total restoration is fully done with all the plumbing, heating and exterior renovated and restored, property taxes would be raised to new higher accessment, tripling or quadrupling from $12,000 a year to a possible $60,000.00 a year
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Garden Urn missing since 2024
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Taxes are double from other properties outside village.
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The village municipality charges their own property taxes and the town charges education taxes on top of town municiple taxes, sending the major tax bill.
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Demolishing the mansion would not be allowed nor would painting the exterior Cypress singles white, be permitted.
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Subdividing would not be approved with historic heritage grounds and gardens, and mansion would not be able to have new use other than single family dwelling.
And mansion would not be able to have new use. Only as single family dwelling.
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Late summer
Garden fills with Phlox Grandiflora, Monarda Flame Red Bee Balm, Golden Rod and other flowers in abundance. Millions of bees arrive for their harvest..
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New owner no matter how influential locally or politically would undergo strict ordinances even from cutting trees a certain distance from Walloomsac Road, unless dead.
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This should explain to anyone reading this the reason Buckthorne Hall is in its present uninhbitable condition, now as is the Walloomsac Inn, and why I had to leave Old Bennington.
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YES! VERY TRISTEsS INDEED.
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Even of you bought property only for the past due taxes you would have to have at least $10. Million USD to spend on it to abide by Village ordinances.
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New Roof installed by Tzaims on most of Mansion from 1963 until 2020

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New roof covered with heart Cedar
From
The Pendragon Forest
British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
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Royals 24" inches long
Set at 5 1/2"inch Exposure
Creating
thickness of
3-4 inches
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Getting resident approval to do anything or live there could cost up to
$50.million USD.
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Famous Belgian Boy Statue
on
Swan Base
Bird Bath
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Templar's Flag,
Created by the
Pope of Avignon
&
The King of France
Crusades
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It became
St. George's Flag
&
The Flag of England
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Additionally, your neighbors are officers implementing ordinances and rules, and even if old friends and influential in your life, once you own Buckthorne Hall, you immediately become their enemy and then can only follow the Vermont laws that will work against you.
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Why? Maybe envy or jealousy, or maybe by yout attitude changing and suddenly acting like the biggest Toad in the village pond, and with you becoming arrogant and demanding.
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Restored original shutters throughout all windows.
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I never changed. I ried to be open, kind and generous. It didn't make anyone like me. You will be excommunicated from area society so best you don't need them and have international wealthy friends.
Any and all reasons and none predictable.
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GUANYIN
All Seeing
Goddess of Mercy
Protector of Sailors
The Chinese Boddhisatva,
female form of
Avalokateshvara
Buddhist God of Compassion.
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The problem with the government of the Village of Old Bennington is that good neighbors, that are elected as local government officials, is that they become bad neighbors, deciding what their neighbors can do, and how they can use their property. Since they choose to be officials they are bound to follow the laws and pretend to become neutral but they actually attack their neighbors and become enemies.
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Odd how people can be so corrupted by law believing they only have the power to dictate to friends, family and neighbors.
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This isn't democracy. This is Plutocracy!
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The Historic Martha Brooks Brown
1905
Landscaped Garden
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ld Bennington is a model for Plutocrates in local government. So beware if you think owning and living there will allow you to be free to do what you want. You can be fined for anything not approved by your neighbors!
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Local workmen unless paid over the top either won't work for you, on your property, or after getting the job and advance pay will sabotage and damage things rather than fix anything, and walk out leaving their destructive mess.
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I know from 60 years experience living there.
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ONCE ANYONE WHO BUYS BUCKTHORNE HALL WILL FIND THEMSELVES IN AN INESCAPABLE TRAP, AND FINALLY JUST WALK AWAY AND/OR SUDDENLY DISAPPEAR
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Balloon
over
Buckthorne Hall
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AS I HAD TO
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Ech9onopes
Lavender Globe Flower
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It isn't what you buy. It is what you inherit from it's, HILL HOUSE's reputation (Buckthorne Hall"s)
past!
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The idea of buying and living in the beautiful Village of Old Bennington is buying and living in isolation.
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It is like opening a door in Space
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"When arriving in Vermont a lawyer told the man to pick a door. The man listened first at each door. He heard moaning, screeming and terrible human suffering from each except one.
He told the lawyer he picked that one.
The lawyer asked:
"Are you certain?
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Once I open it you must go in and you might never get out unless God allows it."
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The man said he was certain.
The lawyer opened the door saying:
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"If you go in you have to jump in with all four feet!"
The man jumped in with all four feet.
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He was thrilled!
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It was a beautiful old pristine
New England Village of historic Colonial White Houses but he saw no one outside their house or on the sidewalks talking.
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View from the Gate zhouse
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There were a couple of old weathered places empty and perfect for restoring and living in for him.
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All the white houses were closed to him. He chose an old weathered aging Cypress shingle mansion with a neglected old garden, just what he wanted, and moved in and beautifully restored it to its original vintage perfection.
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IT WAS THE
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VILLAGE OF OLD BENNINGTON
VERMONT
USA
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He restored it and the historic garden perfectly, planting 20,000 Tulips from the Nederlands in the formal gardens and rows of topiary Boxwood lining the formal gardens, making it the most beautiful mansion and garden in the village.
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Everyone wanted it now and started fighting over it.
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He brought it to life with open house wine, champagne, grapes and cheese receptions for Bennington College music, dance and art students and their faculty.
It grew includong Old Bennington's high society, VIP Business executives, bank presidents and international celebrities.
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Ground Floor
Drawing Room
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I discovered these gold plated, European Crystal, French Empire chandeliers in Paris in 1968 and felt they were perfect for Buckthorne Hall, so I bought 16 in various sizes for every major room all matching. They all have graduated crystals, large to small, and take candle sized light bulbs. I like their delicasy and filigree gold metel decorations.
They can also be found in
Palaise Napoleon
in
Paris.
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Everyone came then including Bennington's town youth. but none ever reciprocated and never invited him. anywhere, except artist, Paul Feeley and painter, Ken Noland.
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He didn't care because he wasn't entertaining and expecting rewards in return.
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Elizabeth Hayes, Michael McKenna,
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Hugh Wingfield Hayes,
Tzaims' cousin from
Cheshire, England
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Tzaims luksus
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Micharl McKenna & Hugh Wingfield Hayes
of Cheshire
whose father was British
General Hayes
of
WWII
AND
RARE MUSEUM
Gold Band White Porceline
Tea Set

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BENNINGTON'S
NORTON POTTERS
Antique
Gold banded, white Porceline Tea Set
serving 12.
Missing since 2024
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The 1842
George Stevens
Tracker Pipe Organ
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1842 STEVENS TRACKER ORGAN
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1842 Stevenx Yracker Organ
Fully Restored
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But many neighbors envied him and hated him and told him what he could do and could not do, but he ignored them and did just what he wanted and abided
to every law in the land except theirs..
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Dining Room

2 sets of paired Silver Candleabras

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Tzaims Luksus
Painting of
Mt Everest Himalaya Mandala
combining the four quarters of the Earth
with the
14 stars
from
Vermont's Flag of Defiance,
plus the
Vermont State 14th Star
in the
Golden Rule
Stolen,
removed from stretcher and frame
in
2025
Tzaims Luksus Mt Everest Himalaya Mandala Painting combining the four quarters of Earth with the 13 stars of Vermont's Flag of Defiance. and the Golden Rule.
Stolen, removed from stretcher in 2025.
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The lawyer told him:
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Hand Hooked finest wool
Tibetan Historic Rugs
Missing believed stolen by looters
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Hand Hooked Tibetan Rug
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YOU CAN DO ANYTHING YOU WANT IN OLD BENNINGTON BUT JUST NEVER TELL ANYONE BEFORE YOU DO IT OR ADVERTISE IT. JUST DO IT.
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Hand Hooked Wool Compas Rug,
Hooked and Designed
by
Tzaims Luksus
Last seen in Drawing Room
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And told him about the
Law of the Horse
&
THE GRANDFATHERING LAW.
THEN SAID :
"You don't need any lawyer."
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Pair of Antique Bronze and Crystal Candleabra
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Pair of French 19th Century
bronze and crystal candleabra,
rare and very valuable.
Stolen from
Buckthorne Hall
Museum
in 2024.
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zstolen from Buckthorne Hall Museum in 2024 Pair of 19th century bronze and crystal Candleabra
This unclear photo shows one of a pair of
Orivit (Orviet)
Pair of
Fine Silver Pewter
and bass shaft
Inlaid with
Rock Crystal
Art Nouveau Candleabras.
One of a kind pair,
extremely valuable and rare.
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They are of a
Mermaid's head
whose long hair
divides in
5 branches holding the 5 candles.
Finest Pewter like Silver.
Crystal base
Check
Orivit
on
Wikipedia,
a
German Art Nouveau company from
1894 to 1905.
Stolen from
Buckthorne Hall Museum
in 2025
Stolen from Buckthorne Hall Museum in 2025.
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Stolen in 2024 -2025
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Antique Bowl
Stolen 2024
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30 YARD BOLT
Pale green and white
Brocaded Fine cotton & silk Fabric
from Europe
with Tassels
for new drapery in
Buckthorne Hall's Great Hall
Stolen in 2024,
from
Buckthorne Hall Museum
in 2024
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The man lived there in his remote artistic world for 60 years and then God set him free to go any where he wanted to.
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Theorbo
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Elizabethan Bent Neck
12 String Lute
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Theorbo in mint condition
Missing since 2023
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Theorbo in mint condition.
Missing since 2024
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Paul Opal
playing
Theorbo
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12 String Elizabethan Bent Neck Lute
in hard red leather case.
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Missing since 2023
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Missing, stolen, in 2023
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THE GARDEN
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TZAIMS'
English Rose Garden
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TZAIMS'

Hybtid Iris Garden

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Tzaims'

Restored

Buckthorne Hall

Formal Gardens

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Hybrid Hemerocalus

Bleeding Hearts

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TZAIMS'

Echaenicea

Purple Cone Flowers

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Entrance to the

Woods,

Sand Springs

Wildlife Sanctuary

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John James Luksus II

a/k/a

Gene Vesrel Lott

1935 - 2013

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Tzaims Painting
oil on canvas of
Gene
(John)
c. 1973
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Home Burial for
John James Luksus II
a/k/a
Gene Vestel Lot
Younger Brother of Raymond John Luksus &
James Henty Luksus
a/ka
Tzaims Luksus
According to Home Burial:
Once buried,according to Vermont law, the body cannot be moved for 100 years.
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My Russian and Lithuanian Coat of Arms as Prince on top
My English, Welsh, Saxon,Norman, Scots
Royal Family
Coat of Armes
below.
Polish Coat of Arms
as Count by marriage
bottom
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I was quite fortunate. Though I was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, my father was born in Czarist Russia and had personal tutors but in addituon to Aademic, Humanities, and Classical knowledge, he was a Master of all Trades. He was perfectly divided in practical knowledge and the Academics so I had the privelige of growing up more European than USAmerican. Additionally my mother was of Royal British and French Heritage. She was not interested in anything other than caring for her family and keeping the house in order. Neither were mercenary but giving, compassionate, and very law abiding though in the USA this had its hardships.
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When I moved to Old Bennington I was faced with two governments, town and village, and two property tax bills. Also zoning ordinances were strict and cruel, however, I met all the requirements and was supportive of them following advice from my estate and corporate attorney Franklin Peens Jones.
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Though the house was big I felt I had the skills to keep it repaired and since I was born in the middle of the US depression, this house had fireplaces, wood stove connectionss, I could collect rain water so I knew I could live here with little money or low income.
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Drawing Room Chimney Restoration.
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Of course after 15 years Bennington and Vermont changed the laws that drove long time families out of their home-steads with escallating taxes and insane new laws.

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Kitchen Chimney

Cap Stone Restored

with

4 Antique London,

England Royal Crown Chimney Pots

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Last Top stage of Kitchen Chimney Bracing

Bracing for the Kitchen Chimney

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I suspected one day I might be driven out by taxes so I decided if I lose my home to the local low life of Vermont then I would leave the country and go as far from the USA as possible!

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My intent moving to Vermont wasn't to buy this house and land. I wanted a forested mountain to build a stone and log cabin, remote with no driveway in or out, and I had the choice to buy Stratton Mountain at $10.00 an acre, also for $28,000.00 in 1963, but I had to live near my textile mill so I bought Hill House instead, built in 1901 by Howard Hart Shields.

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I did love it because it had never been changed or modernized and was like inheriting my Great Grandfather's house.

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Garden Stairs

Stone Walls Rebuilt

Restored

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Well I learned to love it once I started restoring it and its beautiful gardens. It needs all the land that I bought and added. It is an grand estate.

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The Carriage House and 2 acres was offered to me in 1972 but as I was climbing Mt. Everest that winter before they decided to move (he lost his job at the College) the fund raiser of Bennington College was going to let me buy it but sold it to some terrible low class family whilst I was away.

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Caroline Lane Shields
Graduation from an
Elite Girls School
in
New Jersey

Carolind as a Nurse among her Nurse's Graduation.

Caroline Lane as a Nurse graduating with her Nurse's Class

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They ruined the part of The Martha Brooks Brown garden on their side, and opened up my side so they could look into my garden and ruined my use of my garden by cutting everything down right to their border and then tieing their vicious dog on a chain that could enter my garden pavilion.

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It bit the wife of the Director of the NYC Guggenheim Museum whilst having high tea. I had to build up a wall of tree branches like in Devon, England to regain my privacy.

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Restored Gate House

Concierge Security

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View from the Gate House

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Unfortunately as time progressed new people of lower class but with money moved into the village deleting the aristocrats that lived there in 1963. My mother's family, the Shields-Hart-Eddy, the last were Hamilton (Ham) Shields, Ruth Eddy, Juliette Shield's, and myself.

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They died leaving me last of the OB GENTRY.

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The Buckthorne Hall Luksus Burial ground consists of off land west of Village of Old Bennington on Town of Bennington Land consisting perfectly according to distances from neighbor's property by Vermont Law.
Grave site consecrated by
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Bennington, Vermont
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Tzaims' Hand Made
Trappist Oak Casket,
matching Gene's,
in front hall of
Buckthorne Hall
of Mansion
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Morracan High Atlas Rug from Marrikesh
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Tzaims Hand zMade Trappist Oas casket matching Genen's in front hall of Buckthorne All.
HOMR BRUIAL

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Gene's grave site in Buckthorne Hall Family Cemetery in Martha Brooks Brown Historic 1905
Garden

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Tzaims' & Gene's
Burial
Side by Side

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Genes burial site
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Tzaims took all tropical plants
and
Cymbidium Orchid Collection
from orchid greenhouse,
and surrounded
Gene's grave site.
Tzaims said:
"When Gene died, all the flowers died with him,"
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Gene's Trappist Hand made Oak casket tradition wood for Luksus Family, Draped with two family flags.
Father's: Imperial Russian Flag
of the Tzars
Mother's; English/Great Britain
Royal Family Flag
Father" Imperial Russian FlGene's Trappist oak casket with Family flags
Father Russian Imperial
Mother British Royal
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Grave site marked out by Tzaims locating head buried at Magnetic North exacyly
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The Buckthorne Hall Luksus Family Cemetary in the Historic Martha Brooks Brown Garden.
Grave Diggers
25 January 2014
after snow melts
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Local Bennington Boys
Friends of Gene & Tzaims
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The amazing thing is to care for one loved as if still alive one realizes the greatness of the human body, something few people realize. Whether alive or dead they remain the same.
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Gene afer 5 weeks waiting for frozen ground for grave diggers
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His colour by not being embalmed and no make up seems as if he was just sleeping.
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NEIMAN MARCUS AWARD
Alberto Giacometti Sculpture
to
Tzaims Luksus,
1956
Stolen in 2023
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This unclear photo shows one of a kind, one of a pair of silver bronze and rock0 crystal, French Art Nouveau candleabras, bearing the mark on the bottom,
ORVIET.
Extremly valuable,
priceless,
Stolen from
Buckthorne Hall Museum
in 2025
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Museum Box of Prix di Rome,
Tzaims Luksus
photos
of
24 oils on Etching paper
painted in 1981
Missing from 2024
Museum Box of Prix di Rome Tzaims Luksus
. Photos of 24 oils on etching paper
Missing since 2024
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Missing from
Buckthorne Hall
since 2024
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Missing from
Buckthorne Hall
since 2023
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SO HE WENT TO BURMA.
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