In the 1880s, over 170 different designs were in Smith's catalogue, and by the 1890s, Smith made 13m crackers a year.
The exhibition catalogue and captions will say it is "by Leonardo da Vinci" – which is about the most spectacular claim you can make for any old painting.
The size and scope of Oink's catalogue outdid any online music purveyor, and given its distributed nature, the archive was essentially indestructible.
Not all nations, of course, can afford the full catalogue of equipment.
Not all of those shows stay in the catalogue.
No trade union leader since the second world war had to cope with such a catalogue of disasters, nor become so embroiled in a climate of political and industrial decline, as Norman Willis, the former general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, who has died aged 81.
The Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents the majority of Scotland Yard's 30,000 officers, criticised the IPCC for what it called the police watchdog's "catalogue of inappropriate comments and perverse actions".
He said: "It reads as a nightmare catalogue of serious safety breaches aboard and alongside these nuclear-armed submarines... Shortages of all types of crew on these submarines has been well-documented and the description of personnel in extremely stressful situations must be alarming given the huge responsibility some of these sailors are given.
It offers only one caveat, wondering how Coldplay can possibly "turn up the heat" any further than they already have on their notoriously raunchy XXX-rated back catalogue.
In its early years, Spotify was basically a big catalogue of songs and a search box, like its rivals.
There are many copies of his colossal The Fall of the Damned, which the catalogue calls "without doubt one of the most impressive paintings" in Munich's venerable art museum the Alte Pinakothek – but no Fall of the Damned.
