Who Buys a Guillotine? Someone Who Wants an ‘Amusing Acquisition’ – The New York Times
The activity of collecting encompasses an almost limitless range of interests. Submitted for your consideration, a story of the competition to purchase an object that certainly wouldn’t, as it were, make the cut for my living room: a guillotine made in the mid-19th century, and which at one point Lady Gaga tried to buy at auction (she was outbid by a Russian collector). Most of us would feel aversion rather than attraction at the idea of having such a thing in our home, but as they say, it would be a funny old world if we were all the same.
– Jack Forster, Editor-in-Chief
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