I have some citations relating to the social context of bric-a-brac, culled
from works by Dickens, Orwell, etc.; would that be helpful?

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Folks,
I am looking for some comparative data from late-19th century and 20th 
century sites and hoping that folks on the list might self-promote or 
suggest some work by colleagues.  I'm interested in bric-a-brac, an 
ambiguous category of things that in archaeological sites most often 
takes the form of mass-produced figurines that most of us bury in our 
artifact catalogs, partly because we do not find all that many of these 
things and partly because we are not always sure what to make of them