These practices have been abandoned but corals and other living marine animals are still harvested illegally for sale in the curio trade. |
Photographs taken in Temple Grove, McCord's residence, show that his first displays were in curio cabinets. |
The gentlemen of Arles, scholars, men of letters, bibliophiles and art lovers, possess libraries, curio closets and antique collections. |
As for cone snails, their shells are collected and sold by the thousands at curio shops to tourists. |
As to the mother house, it is asserted on honor that up to 1838 not even as much as a curio had been sent there. |
This often tends towards the language of craft and curio within a contemporary fine art context. |