In his ex­tre­mely influential study, Collectors and cu­rio­sit­ies [1], Krysztof Pomian, discusses the other ty­pe of ob­jects, namely semiophores, that is ”ob­jects which were of ab­so­lutely no use, […] but which, being endowed with meaning, represents the invi­si­ble. They were put on display ­in­ste­ad of being handled, and were not sub­jected to wear and tear.”