Edward is the Ripley's archivist in Florida.
Here, he talks about some of his interesting favorite memories of how some exhibits came to light.
- I've received over 100 shrunken heads over the years, but only one by surprise-in the mail. I bought two from a "walk-in" to our office. He was carrying them in a brown paper lunch bag!
- After searching high and low for ten years, I found a copy of the Lord's Prayer engraved on a pinhead. It was a totally flukish fund, made while I was doing an inventory of a collection of miniature coin paintings on a freezing cold snowy day in Seattle, Washington.
- After paying $100.00 each for 20 intricately carved toothpicks, I received a phone call from customs broker informing me they had just cleared a box from customs, but all it had in it was toothpicks. I had visions of him using one of my precious toothpicks to clean his teeth.
- We once discovered a stuffed albino moose head in a funky nindown bar in Cochran, Canada. We offered to buy the whole bar, because we wanted the moose so bad, but we were unsuccessful in making a deal. Many years later, the owner phoned me out of the blue and we bought it. It's now in our museum in Branson, Missouri.
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