Q & A with Mike Zohn What's the oddest item that is most requested in the shop? It's amazing how many people ask for an orbitoclast -- also known as the tool used for a lobotomy. It resembles an ice pick and is/was used to poke through the skull in the eye sockets and into the frontal lobe of the brain. What's the highest price/oddest item you've ever sold? The most expensive item was a huge English 19th-century wooden case of drawers filled with specimens, including, eggs, birds, bugs, moths, butterflies, rocks, minerals, seashells, skulls and all kinds of assorted natural history items. It sold for a bit under $20,000. What items freak you out? I don't like bugs. They have a horrible smell to them and just freak me out a bit. If there is a case of insects that needs repair of any sort, I let Evan take care of it. She doesn't seem to mind. What was your oddest customer experience? We once had a customer who was interested in a Victorian mirror and wanted to know who had looked into the mirror -- as if we had a list of all the people who have looked at their reflection in it over the last 100-plus years! I assured him that it still had plenty of reflections left in it. |
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