Monday, 9 November 2026ARCHIVE
KOLLECTORIUM
FROM THE KEEP · MONDAY 9 NOVEMBER
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
The Coffers has been reviewing the word TOTAL, and has found it rather optimistic.
A figure may have a price, certainly. Then there is shipping, tax, import tax, fees, and occasionally a final invoice arriving after you had already enjoyed the dangerous sensation of believing the matter settled. Some of these numbers are known when an order begins. Others prefer to reveal themselves later.
The Coffers has therefore become more particular.
Anything marked NOT KNOWN YET can now be filled in when the truth eventually arrives, and shipping or tax can sit in their own payment rather than being quietly folded into the figure itself. Paying off the figure and paying off the order are, regrettably, not always the same event.
Each order now keeps the distinction properly at the top: what the figure cost, what everything else cost, and what the whole adventure cost all in.
Once every figure is home and every last coin has been accounted for, the record slips behind DONE. It is not deleted.
The Coffers found the suggestion upsetting. 🪙
P.S.12 new figures came into the Archive, from Asmus Toys, Hoops Toyz, InArt, Kaustic Plastik and more.