on January 5, a piece on the pleasures of junk shops, which he differentiated from antique shops for their dusty obscurity, their broken items of no value, and their proprietors, who tended to be enigmatic figures with little interest in sales. He noted that their “finest treasures are never discoverable at first glimpse; they have to be sorted out from among a medley of bamboo cake-stands, Britannia-ware dish-covers, turnip watches, dog-eared books, ostrich eggs, typewriters of extinct makes, spectacles without lenses, decanters without stoppers, stuffed birds, wire fire guards, bunches of
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