Some of the amassed items are exotic, though.
The novel was accompanied by an art book, Appendix A:, ostensibly a catalog of items amassed by its disturbed narrator.
Sadly, few among the items amassed by Richardson benefited from such advantages, and the sale had its ups and downs.
The Folger's collection of Elizabethan items, amassed by the library's founders, Henry Clay Folger and his wife, Emily Jordan Folger, is the largest outside Britain.
She amassed over 250 items including pet rocks, small statues of eagles standing on rocks, a Rocky Marciano bobblehead doll and a bowl made from an Eagles record.
During a century and a half, the SMA amassed some 50,000 items and built museums to hold them: two in France and one each in Italy and the Netherlands.
Pamuk replicated the titular museum in reality, using a house in Istanbul to display a range of items amassed while plotting the story; it opened to the public in 2012, accompanied by the catalogue Şeylerin masumiyeti (The Innocence of Objects).
Marking World War One's centenary year and using the library's already amassed collection of items from around Europe, a free exhibition will show how people coped with life during the war.
There are numerous handy zipped pockets for keeping snacks, ski passes or the mysterious small items that all children seem to amass.
The maker of big ticket items ranging from jet engines to turbines expects to amass $26 billion in cash by the end of this year, much of it from its deal to sell its majority stake in NBC Universal to cable operator Comcast.
"You've given me hope, with my big, awkward hands," said Mr. Clinton, who passed along to aides the T-shirts, mugs and other free items he amassed.
