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famous author of Don Quixote. His priceless collection of gems and precious stones is 
still preserved intact in the Art Gallery of his native town. He also formed collections 
of old Russian and Swedish coins, antique Byzantine crosses, Indian jewelry, and one 
of Chinese and Japanese curiosities. The last twenty years of his life were devoted to 
the collection of tobacco pipes of all nations and times. It included 13,000 examples 
from every quarter of the globe,—pipes from the pre-historic mounds of the Mississippi 
Valley, antique Mexican pipes, formerly the property of the Emperor Maximilian, the 
collection of North American Indian pipes formed by the traveler George Catlin, early 
pipes from England and all parts of Europe, pipes from' Africa, Australia, Asia and the 
Pacific Islands. There were pipes of gold, of silver, of exquisitely modeled and orna- 
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mented porcelain, pipes beautifully inlaid, and thousands of examples, most curious 
and grotesque. The collection included exquisitely fashioned and enameled snuff-boxes, 
bottles, spoons, mills and rasps, fire strikers, tobacco pouches, and, in short, everything 
which related in any manner to the custom of smoking. The descriptive catalogues of 
the collection numbered twenty large volumes. He also formed a most complete and 
unique library of books relating to tobacco, consisting of about 500 volumes, and rang¬ 
ing in date from 1547 down to the present time. Business losses recently compelled 
him to part with his various possessions, which he did cheerfully and uncomplainingly. 
His great success in obtaining whatever he wanted was the result of his inborn kindli¬ 
ness and suavity of manner. Several years before his death, which occurred at 61, 
he became almost totally blind, but his genial nature remained unruffled to the last. 
