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About coffin, check this exhibition : Leaving in style, Pictures of Ghana's amazing coffin culturehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11879532 Guess I can order a computer style one ... ;D
The big question is other than a museum, who would want to buy Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin?
I could see a lot of private collectors wanting that. Seems like there's a market for everything. Who would want 3/4 of the stuff on ebay? Yet they still buy it. I did find this new and interesting from the article:
The pine coffin is partially water-damaged by the 18 years it spent in the ground before Oswald's body was exhumed in 1981 to lay to rest rumors that a look-alike Soviet agent was buried in his place.
A secular replacement of a primal need for relics? If the bidders had lived centuries ago in Europe, they would have been collecting bones and cloths of saints, splinters from “the True Cross” and such.
A secular replacement of a primal need for relics? If the bidders had lived centuries ago in Europe, they would have been collecting bones and cloths of saints, splinters from "the True Cross" and such.
You may be on to something here. I had not thought of it from that angle before. It actually makes sense that in an era of declining faith people try to hold on to secular relics. Wanting something from a murderer is a little different from a religious relic though.
A secular replacement of a primal need for relics? If the bidders had lived centuries ago in Europe, they would have been collecting bones and cloths of saints, splinters from "the True Cross" and such.
You may be on to something here. I had not thought of it from that angle before. It actually makes sense that in an era of declining faith people try to hold on to secular relics. Wanting something from a murderer is a little different from a religious relic though.
Perhaps the religious believe and some seculars invest???? ;D
I think there are just a lot of hobbyists out there who don't mind putting their energy and money into particular things. Yes, a coffin is an odd thing to want, but its value is more in the fact that it's so rare, and the person buried in it was infamous. This is the same reason why something like Hitler's bunker toilet seat would fetch a pretty penny.Incidentally, I could see an artists buying the coffin, disassembling it, and making a frame out of it in which to put a portrait of JFK. Would that not be a highly thought-provoking work of art? The artist would get some serious exposure.
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