the met just "acquired" this but since when did they share custody with donors? this feels like fractional giving with a new name...

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"Merchant of Ivory" is a nice playful title; I would have been so tempted to use "Roomful of Teeth"

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I learned about this from Katherine Baker's terrific "A Merchant of Ivory in 16th-Century Paris: The Estate Inventory of Chicart Bailly" brill.com/display/titl...

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At his death in 1533, Chicart Bailly had more than 2 tons of unworked elephant tusks in his Paris house, stored on the 4th floor of his house in "the room of ivory teeth."

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This is what people did before the internet

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