A drawer in a table at Biltmore that was supposed to hve been stained with
blood from Napoleons' heart!  (It was 40 years ago!)

At 08:59 AM 03/21/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>I would like to pose a question to the group. What is your most unusual
>acquisition? What is the one thing the kids go home and talk about at
>supper? The exhibit that people thirty years later remember? Examples
>from my experience include "The Amputated Leg of General Sickles" at the
>old Army Medical Museum, or the "supposed" 19th Century witch in a lead
>sealed bottle mentioned last autumn on this list. The bizarre, the
>outre, the acquisition with a folk legend attached (Hope Diamond). Tell
>the list! The item need not be on exhibit. Things from the basement like
>Yale's collection of pickled brains. Same goes for works of art! Any
>good stories accompanying them. Likewise strange curatorial experiences.
>
>David Gerrick - Information Services
>Dayton Lab
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