1

The Act of Collecting

2

The Object’s Voice

3

Whoops, It Broke

4

The Better Mousetrap

5

Plumb Wore Out

6

Taste Changed

7

Owners Lost Faith

8

Owners Lost Interest

9

Owners Grew Up

10

nobody cared

11

Got Lost

12

Part of Something Bigger

13

Used Up

14

Better in the Afterlife

15

A Bad Idea in the First Place

16

Never Made Enough

17

Provisional Utility

18

Made for One Use Only

19

Unintended Survivors

20

Mental Collections

21

So What’s Left?

22

Just in Time

About the Author

From the Author

From the field

From You

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chapter 12

Part of Something Bigger

Hood Ornaments Reflectors Architectural Ornament Hand Door Knockers Billiard Table Pockets Jokers Aces of Spades Home Front Textiles World War II Ration Books & OPA Points Flags & Flag Depictions

Playing-card Joker, 20th century. Printed card stock, 3 1/2" high. USA

Part of Something Bigger comments upon those items that are lost because the viability the idea, cause, entity or the larger commodity of which they are part, ceases to be a necessity or changes format (ex: hood ornaments, reflectors, architectural ornament, hand door knockers, flags, home front textiles, jokers, aces of spades, billiard table pockets, World War II ration books).