The agile 84-year-old moves quickly from possession to priceless possession, like a keeper auditing the contents of his museum, taking phone calls in between recounting the booty of kings and emperors.
He condemned Kristallnacht, but he wrote, in an infamous essay published by Reader's Digest in November, 1939, weeks after the war in Europe began, that Western nations "can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood".
But that's what the esteemed astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle did in 1985 when he doubted the authenticity of arguably the most priceless possession in the collections of what is now London's Natural History Museum (NHM).
Together, you can work on a schedule for preventive screenings and doctor's visits tailored to your age and health in order to protect what he called your most "priceless possession". "You can't go rent another body and you can't go use someone else's body," Brahmbhatt concluded.
"What is becoming evident after speaking to customers is that the pace of life has become so fast and we are so eager to get from A to B that priceless possessions are easily being forgotten".
And others such as Richard Titmuss have written about how blood and organ donors give away these priceless possessions to people whose names they will never know.
Up the Grand Canal, in the second half of the show at the Palazzo Grassi, they reappear – damage repaired, missing limbs recreated – as the priceless possessions of the wealthy collectors who once lived in that palace.
I consider my journals some of my most priceless possessions.
All the time that you have your fingers crossed that you're in possession of a priceless item, it's great fun.
As the years go on, both Theo's attachment to the painting (a thing of beauty, but also a physical connection to one of the last conversations he had with his mother) and his guilt over his continued possession of such a priceless work of art grows.
However, that's not so easy if you have five tonnes of furniture, 33 thousand books, possessions which include a priceless church pulpit, and it's your first move for over 150 years.
