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

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chapter 7

Owners Lost Faith

Santos Radio Premium Rings Heart Lockets Bride & Groom Cake Toppers Last Suppers Ex-Votos, Milagros & Cimaruta Political Campaign Buttons

Campaign button for Thomas E. Dewey, 1943. Litho on steel with brass wire pin back, 1 1/2" diameter. USA

Owners Lost Faith is about possessions that represented belief in the magic qualities of an object or its symbolic representation of a union or state of mind before the owners lost faith in the fulfillment of that object’s promise (ex: bride & groom cake toppers, santos, political campaign buttons, heart lockets, radio premium rings, ex-votos, milagros & cimaruta).