Dr. Lerch's way of buying antiques is...well...eccentic

            A Manhatten physician, Dr. Robert M. Lerch, likes to collect things. He collects many things from 20^th century Bakelite jewelry, Art Nouveau bronze frogs and dragons, vending machines and amusement park and circus artifacts which include: panoramic photos of circus performers, blueprints for Coney Island rides, shooting gallery targets, fragments of carousel animals, statues of contortionists, a miniature glass coffin, Bakelite clocks, parasol handles, nodding mechanical lovebirds costumed as a bride and groom and even engraved metal hard hats worn by Indonesian oil rig workers. His collecting tastes are very diverse. Nothing stops him. No theme is present in his collecting’s. He does simply what most humans wish to do but never have the nerve to do: he takes what he likes.

            Lerch has been collecting art like this for forty years. He is known throughout the land of antiques as being a very omnivorous buyer. He is now offering them for sale at the Ross Art Group gallery in Manhatten for as much as maybe four or five figures apiece.  The theme for his gallery, he has never known theme in his life so he went with what best described his collection as well as the way he buys antiques, is “craziness, or eccentricity.”