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A crazy collection of curios from bones of extinct Dodo birds, hair from a wooly mammoth, and even the tooth from a massive Megalodon shark are all up for auction this week.

The Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History was forced to close when Covid pandemic broke out Because the Hackney museum relies on foreign tourists and out-of-town visitors, pandemic was devastating Items going up for auction on Thursday includes an eight-legged lamb valued between £4000 and £6000 Meanwhile, pair of Queen Victorias knickers from early in her reign estimated to be worth £5,000 to £7,000  Collector and museum owner Viktor Wynd described decision to sell his colle...

Viktor Wynd is blissfully disinterested in NFTs. "Im sitting in a shed in rural England working in porcelain and bronze as people have done for thousands of years, and I dont like looking at screens so....Im not actually sure what an NFT is, other than it has nothing to do with me and I dont know what Id do with one." Wynd is, by his own definition, a "pataphysicist, writer, curator, collector, dealer, dilettante, naturalist and antiquarian". Alongside organising extravagant parties such as mas...