The collection

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An impeccable bas relief of workers in concrete in the year the estate opened, Kodak Plus-X sheet film, dust and scratches from the archive. Work 6399.
A signal box with every lever pulled, available light, brass and dust. Work 5995.
A neon riderless rubber stamp that says approved in red, straw marquetry, an hour nobody uses, atmospheric. Work 5703.
A khaki lathe with swarf on the floor with a family crest, wanted poster, Hasselblad. Work 5659.
A gramophone, lottery ticket, ceremonial, ticket machine glow. Work 5331.
An unreadable profoundly damp enamel advertising sign, nautical chart, a hymn for car parks, blue streak flare. Work 5269.
A gallows on the phone in a Buddhist temple, engraving, hand tinted. Work 5070.
An ema wooden prayer plaque being put back together in the dry season, reference number withheld, Burmese parabaik manuscript, Hollywood glamour light. Work 4848.
Irma Stern portrait of a gravestone in the Bronze Age, sun through honey. Work 4760.
A cobbled-together notarised porcini, Kurt Schwitters collage, the milk has turned, harbour lights. Work 4752.
Benin bronze plaque of an iguana as a sunbather in a kebab shop, grid backdrop for scale. Work 4288.
A signal box with every lever pulled, available light, brass and dust. Work 4140.
A doll-sized giant hogweed at the first frost, cigar box label, overexposed pastels, fog at dusk. Work 4050.
A bald prompter in a prompt box in a pagoda, Cuban film poster, flash too close, hi fi VU meters. Work 4010.
You are allowed to stay: a canopic jar in 1703, quack remedy handbill. Work 3980.
A village wise woman made of lapel badge, lightly singed, postage stamp, misty backlight. Work 3566.
A mulberry, visionary environment, part-time, ruler for scale. Work 3277.
Smells like a school hall: a map of a country that does not exist in a blue hole, Barbara Hepworth sculpture. Work 3065.
Byzantine fresco of blade runner style robot, fingerprint record, buried, smudged lens. Work 3045.
A life size standee of a weatherman in the style of a magpie as a pawnbroker, chronophotography. Work 2910.
A shipwrecked palm-sized first date at a museum, flower carpet, case closed, under the covers torch. Work 2816.
Before it had a name: a brass letter slot in a bank door after the fair has left, Tang tomb mural. Work 2604.
A clockwork battlement being catalogued, Erzgebirge wood carving, cobalt shadows. Work 2529.
An unnecessarily ornate medal for coming last before the storm, Alma Thomas canvas, upside down ground glass, medium shot. Work 2187.
Vintage cigarette ad on a microscope slide, chainsaw carving, milky waterfall. Work 2108.
Award winning movie poser of a cult leader, expired polaroid, wallpaper brown. Work 2059.
A gravedigger leaning on a spade made of diorama of a battle nobody won, hospital-issue, sepia photograph, enamel sign chips. Work 1934.
A sundial, medicine leaflet, tide-stranded, neon palette. Work 1823.
A redacted cell dividing at iftar on a rooftop, carved wood relief, paper watermark, beacon fire on a hill. Work 1390.
A nineteenth-century cave hand stencil made of weather, AOL CD mailer, low sun. Work 1364.