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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Best Collector Ever?

Dr. John Lattimer died last year at 92, and his daughter is cataloging his voluminous collection to settle estate taxes, as well as out of curiosity. He truly had some of everything, all odd and unique in some way. Among the items listed are Lincoln's bloody collar, his shaving mirror, and the inkwell from the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Lee Harvey Oswald's letters to his mother, Charles Lindbergh's goggles, Napoleon's penis (supposedly, and he was a urologist, which might explain the interest), Hermann Goering's cyanide capsule that he used to kill himself, as well as his boxer shorts, a coat belonging to Custer, and Greta Garbo's drivers license (she was a patient). And that just scratches the surface. Of course, the NY Times ignores the weapons aspect, as in loads of Revolutionary and Civil War swords, rifles, cannonballs, World War II machine guns and lugers, and medieval weapons and armor. That last list is from Wikipedia. See, I never miss an opportunity to show the NY Times left wing bias. :)

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