The names did not match the lamp numbers. Archivist Dev found kettle, blanket and small blue bowl written across the back of an equipment sheet. The handwriting belonged to a supervisor who died before the archive opened.
His daughter explained that the family moved house during a wet winter. He used spare paper from work to list what had been packed. Later, the sheet returned to the office inside another folder and was filed with the equipment records because of its printed front.
Dev separated the two descriptions in the catalogue without physically dividing the sheet. One side recorded workplace stock; the other recorded a household departure. Neither automatically dated the writing on the reverse.
The daughter asked for a copy of the blue bowl entry. It was the only item on the list she still owned. For the archive, the sheet was a warning about assuming all writing on one page belonged to the same task. For her, it was a brief return to a kitchen she could remember only through the objects carried out of it.