Have you ever run across a very old, more than 'vintage' magazine unexpectedly?  Yesterday as I was cleaning my workroom I rediscovered an old 1913 Watkins sales catalog.  It came from my great-grandmother.  Why would I keep something like that?  Well, my great-grandmother was a very frugal person, and nothing went to waste if it could be recycled into something else.  She used this magazine as her scrapbook where she cut and pasted patterns for crocheting, tatting, and beading that she had cut out from newspapers.  I now have a diary of sorts of that part of her life.  

...to be continued.