any chance of a short tutorial on how you achieved this?
Maybe, maybe not... depends if I can still find the .PSD first of all. It was just basically a half decent scan of old paper, and MANY layers in photoshop. Each layer contributed something to the end result, like darkening the edges etc.
Usually you can turn even bad image to something nice looking with just lot's of tweaking and time. And you need right tools too, of course.