I used to collect Depression Glass until it got too expensive, also Blue Willow china, old watercolours and Canadian pine furniture. I have also amassed a huge book collection although it has no real value to anyone other than me. I'm so boring! This New York Times tells the story of a collector of far more interesting objects:
THE owner of Napoleon’s penis died last Thursday in Englewood, N.J. John K. Lattimer, who’d been a Columbia University professor and a collector of military (and some macabre) relics, also possessed Lincoln’s blood-stained collar and Hermann Göring’s cyanide ampoule. But the penis, which supposedly had been severed by a priest who administered last rites to Napoleon and overstepped clerical boundaries, stood out (sorry) from the professor’s collection of medieval armor, Civil War rifles and Hitler drawings.
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