It said the Hoffe family kept the bulk of the collection locked away in bank safety deposit boxes and had sold parts of it to the highest bidder.
The Hoffe family kept the bulk of the collection locked away in bank safety deposit boxes in Israel and Switzerland and over the years sold some papers to collectors.
He keeps the collection locked in a bank safe, but he visits his stash about once a year.
Collections: Locks of my hair, 'cause it's funny and I loved having long hair; marching-band figures from India; Jesusabilia -- I've had a bunch of Catholic boyfriends; cheap plastic trophies from sports; taxidermy insects; dried leis from Hawaii; sex figures from Hong Kong; Indian gods; Indonesian gods.
Behind the plexiglass in a central case hang an array of captured revolvers, knives, clubs, hand grenades, the Thompson submachine gun used by a member of Al Capone's gang to bump off Frankie Yale and a collection of lock picks found in Willie Sutton's jail cell.
By a vitrine on the north side of the room, Jonathan Hiam, the curator of the American Music Division and the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, pointed out an object of interest from the library's collection: a lock of Beethoven's hair, in an ornamental box with a secret hatch.
Her husband, who buys one or two new firearms every year, keeps his 20-piece collection under lock and key in their attic.
Visit to the Society's museum, housing among other things the Mossman Collection of Locks.
Pictures were simply more dangerous than words, and the collection remained locked up, its guardians having decided a chastity belt was advisable.
One of the pieces here consists of nails stuck onto a trowel, while another, pleasantly surprising piece is nothing more than a sinuous, graceful collection of locks and keys on a chain.
