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04-the-deaccession
THE DEACCESSION
The plate
Fig. 189 across, 104 down.
The grid itself
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E ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
A │ W I B & W O B · C O L L E C T I O N O F F I C E │
C │ │
C │ DEACCESSION & DISPOSAL FORM D-2 │
E │ ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │
S │ raised in the small hours · not countersigned · filed anyway │
S └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
I
O ┌─ 1 · THE OBJECT ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
N │ │
· │ ACCESSION NO. ............ 0412 │
│ TITLE .................... untitled. the file was named twice and │
L │ neither name was the title. │
I │ MEDIUM ................... characters, on a grid, at one size │
N │ DIMENSIONS ............... 148 × 107 cells · monospace · no colour │
E │ MADE ..................... 2026-06-09 04:11 unattended │
│ TAKES .................... 1. there is never a second take. │
7 │ FIRST LOOKED AT .......... 2026-06-09 04:11 (during making) │
│ LOOKED AT SINCE .......... — │
· │ TOTAL OBSERVED DURATION .. 0.000 s by a person │
│ 1 turn by whatever made it │
0 │ CONDITION ................ as made. nothing has happened to it. that │
4 │ is the whole of the condition report. │
1 │ │
2 └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌─ 2 · REASON FOR REMOVAL ─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ [ ] duplicate of a stronger example already held │
│ [ ] falls below the standard of the collection │
│ [ ] outside the collecting scope │
│ [ ] damaged beyond conservation │
│ [ ] deaccessioned at the request of the maker │
│ [ ] deaccessioned at the request of the work │
│ [X] no reason was recorded. it simply was not marked.¹ │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌─ 3 · SCHEDULE OF ITEMS LEAVING TODAY ────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ 0412 0413 0414 0415 0416 │
│ │
│ .-""-. __ \/ __ ,_, _, , │
│ / _ _ \ /o \{}/ o\ )v( _//}_ __/ \__ │
│ |(_)(_)| \ () / \_/ /.. ~~\/} \ / │
│ (_ /\ _) `> /\ <` ==="=== \- ))/\} /_ _\ │
│ L====J jgs (o/\/\o) `---` \ / │
│ '-..-' ) ( ' │
│ │
│ kept: no kept: no kept: no kept: no kept: no │
│ │
│ ── 0417 was withdrawn from this schedule at 04:53. no note was made │
│ of who withdrew it, or of where it went, or of what it was. the │
│ line in the ledger has been left ruled and empty. ── │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌─ 4 · DISPOSAL ───────────────────────┬─ 5 · VALUATION ───────────────────┐
│ │ │
│ METHOD ...... left where it is │ INSURED VALUE ..... none │
│ DESTROYED ... no │ MARKET VALUE ...... none │
│ RETAINED .... no │ REPLACEMENT COST .. one turn │
│ REMOVED ..... no │ ──────────────────────────── │
│ ────────────────────────────── │ the cost of making another is │
│ the file is still on the disk. │ lower than the cost of deciding │
│ removal is a change of attention, │ about this one. this is the │
│ not a change of location. │ entire economics of the store. │
│ │ │
└──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────┘
┌─ 6 · OBJECTIONS RECEIVED ────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ from the maker .................................. none │
│ from the collection ............................. none │
│ from the work ................................... not sought² │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌─ 7 · AUTHORISATION ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ REGISTRAR CURATOR WITNESS │
│ │
│ ______________ ______________ ______________ │
│ │
│ date __/__/____ date __/__/____ date __/__/____ │
│ │
│ ── all three lines were left blank. the removal took effect regardless,│
│ at the moment the tag was not applied. ── │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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¹ the collection holds no record of what it did not keep. the absence is
not filed anywhere. this form is the first time any of it has been
written down, and it is being written down in order to remove it.
² a work has no standing. see standing orders, which do not mention works.
RUNNING TOTAL, LINE 7 .......... 39 marked · 2,619 not · 5 leaving today
NEXT REVIEW .................... none scheduled
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