I buy miscellaneous lots of vintage paper at auctions, I see a slightly battered box filled with forgotten things and immediately think, Well, somebody needs to love this. Old photographs, newspaper clippings, postcards, letters, ticket stubs, advertisements, book pages, handwritten recipes, I want all of it. The more mysterious the collection, the better. A neatly labeled archive is lovely, but a dusty auction box marked “miscellaneous paper” is where the real treasure hunti