I bought this odd but very old hookah base. When I got home, I noticed there was a little piece of paper inside (along with some paperclips, dead bugs, etc.). The note was fragile and I had to laminate it with packing tape to keep it from crumbling. Which is not, incidentally, a recommended archival method! The little note says the "old Russian pipe" was from Cousin Mary, and the note-writer, who initialed the piece of paper, thought it would make a nice lamp. It would have been nice to have a date on the paper, but even without, the little scrap of paper is a treasure in its own right.
