At auctions of collections of esthetics, all is not art that is bartered, even though the assembled objects may once have represented the ultimate artistic impulses of many a departed collector. Strange, strange things have gone under the hammer, some to end in dime curiosity shows, others to adorn the private amassings of eccentric or nouveaux accumulators. But buyers are never lacking. No one doubted that new owners would be found for several relics offered for sale last week in Manhattan and London.
Jackson. One treasure was a crop of hair from...
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