27/11/24. It may have been maple seeds twirling down from a tree or the empty sea conch found on a beach that drew the attention of the earliest people on earth and that served as an inspiration. What is certain is that the top has been used as a toy, a weapon or a magical instrument for thousands of years.“The lost Art of Spinning Tops” describes the exciting journey of the top from then up to the present day. In a chronological story of 278 pages and 1150 colour pictures the evolution of the top and the game of tops is described by Dutch collector Lourens Bas and photographer Arthur Verdoorn.