ABSTRACT
Many strands ofhuman psychology come together in the notion of creating collections to mark a moment in time, and the form which these collections can take is correspondingly various. Collections are made as deposits for burial under buildings when foundations are laid; they are made to mark significant public moments like victory in a major war, or the erection of a significant monument; and they are created to commemorate apparently momentous moments in the passage of time, like the transition of one century to another, or of one millennium to another.
