The collection

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A greyboard cut market stall with a striped paper roof, three years of Sunday afternoons, tape wear on a much shown reel. Work 10202.
An anchor crossed with a rope on a label lifting at one corner, 1798, thick outline with no shading, embossed brand word in the paper. Work 9977.
A bilingual pipe resting on a tobacco tin beside a match count in figures, the late 1950s, nobody kept the boxes only the labels, Czech matchbox label art. Work 9740.
Blue and black inks on one pull of a sympathetic chain beside the vertebrae, two colour letterpress in black and brick red, wood engraving printed with the text. Work 9576.
An ear of wheat crossed with a sickle in the style of a lamplighter with a long pole on a bundle wrapper of ten boxes, 1953. Work 9503.
A felt duck with webbed cardboard feet on a shallow stage, studio recording with the stage edges showing, zoom lens racked slightly soft. Work 9346.
A tray handle of dull brass, layout square from directly above, the weights were counted every evening, photostat of an index page. Work 9213.
A wrong-coloured hair dryer in four flat panels with one cell left as bare paper, an unnumbered proof run, screenprint with the ink sitting raised. Work 9025.
A chimney no higher than a boot inside a box too small to stand in, the short seasons, gradient profile figure with a scale bar, dye transfer with a soft palette. Work 9016.
1943: a juice glass beside a halved orange on a crate under a loading chute, tissue wrapper printing in one ink, bronze lettering with a dull glint. Work 8972.
The lamp softened her arm by lunchtime: a red plasticine postbox thumbed into shape in one long afternoon in 1969, vignetted corners on a tabletop shot, noise reduction leaving a soft edge. Work 8833.
A thunderhead above a dry range, label art with a hard black outline, the crate was broken up for kindling, nail hole through one corner. Work 8831.
Core samples in a wooden tray in the style of a coal dust in the creases of a hand in the underground stable, the winter of the coal strike. Work 8488.
A lightly inked portal vein and its tributaries, the hour before the klaxon, stencil cut and sprayed on paper. Work 8382.
Engraved figure from a monograph of a frost-edged spectrograph bolted at a Cassegrain focus, 1897, slide taped between two cover glasses. Work 8114.
The years of the poison book: tin glaze crazed across the letters of a bundle of valerian root tied with twine on a bare board floor. Work 8082.
A rod worked puppet miller dusted with talcum inside a punt of cut cardboard, the last season of a puppet series, footlight shadow thrown up a face. Work 7867.
1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 7667.
A straw-coloured outpost with half its windows blocked, after the rock ran out, Japanese matchbox label art, flat opaque ink with a matte surface. Work 7598.
Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7567.
Glare-flattened midday rendering of a crate of packing straw and stone in the long waiting season, sepia wash over a pencil outline. Work 7351.
Mosan colour like cloisonne enamel of a cadel with a face hidden in it holding a closed gospel book, late 10th century. Work 7289.
Oil sketch of a prize vegetable of a carrot pulled with the top still on under a wooden label in pencil, 1900, cover foxed at all four corners. Work 7159.
A dropout-scarred tape reused with the last band painted out beside a tape with a bar of type across the label, the summer of the double deck, document style frame of fifty tapes. Work 7142.
A spare heads on a strip of cardboard before a painted sky flat, he was posed for a week in one stride. Work 6869.
The school term of 1965, a thumbprinted plasticine suitcase with two matchstick clasps with a spare head waiting on a tray, primary colour set photographed flat. Work 6761.
A type case with sorted sorts beside one object in a case in the Ulm years, Bauhaus typographic poster, sewn signatures in a plain case. Work 6664.
A model of an atom on a plinth photographed as a robot's chest with a printed meter, toy box lid illustration, ink flaking at the folded edges. Work 6555.
A flip-top box with the lid half open in a hotel cocktail lounge, 1956. Work 6401.
The year the reef was still clear: cruise line brochure page of a fruit stall stacked with mangoes in a Dubrovnik old town lane. Work 6156.