Dr. William Cherry donated a pair of antique elephant tusks on Monday to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

2006-11-08 - Bonanza, United States.

Cherry's grandfather, William Stamps Cherry, was explorer and the owner of the largest collection of antique African artifacts of its kind in the world and brought back the tusks, weighing 332 pounds together, measuring more than eight feet long and appraised at $835,000, to the U.S. from Africa in the late 1800s. Most of the collection has been in archive at the Los Angeles museum for more than 75 years.

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