handing down

Objects worth handing down — an editors' note on giving things that last

An editors' note on a quiet test the library keeps failing on purpose: most things bought for other people do not survive the year. What changes when the object given is one that can be repaired, refilled, resoled — and read again in thirty years. A walk along the shelves, read as a register of gifts.

• ·editors' notes
• ·gifts
• ·handing down
• ·durability

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