Friday, April 10, 2009

Antiquary

A shopkeeper, only mustier. An official custodian, keeper, or recorder of antiquities.

Antiquary—too often a collector of valuables that are worth nothing, and a re-collector of all that Time has been glad to forget.”

Horatio Smith, The Tin Trumpet (1836).

On a scale of 1 to 10—4

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