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

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chapter 8

Owners Lost Interest

Photo Buttons & Pins Character Wallets Chang & Eng Pairings Trylons & Perispheres Penny Arcade Fortune & Cowboy Cards Dexterity Games Skate Keys

Group of roller skate keys, 1940s-50s. Steel, 2 to 3 1/4" high each. USA

Owners Lost Interest looks at those things that are so married to the time in which they were acquired or the owner’s stage in life that interest waned as objectivity took hold and perspective descended (ex: character wallets, photo buttons & pins, Chang & Eng fairings, dexterity games, skate keys, Trylons & Perispheres, penny arcade fortune and cowboy cards).