As Found - Old Pickwick Inn CT Chocolate Tin Filled with Fishing Line Winders and Bobber turtle pull toy who shared that two generations

who shared that two generations of children in the family had played with them as children

so would have been well into his 70s when he carved this one

suggesting that it was made to hold something fairly precious

and remnants of white paint over the wheels and along the sides

As Found - Old Pickwick Inn CT Chocolate Tin Filled with Fishing Line Winders and Bobber turtle pull toy who shared that two generationsIt makes me very happy to find a box that someone has left just as found, and this one filled with various sorts of fishing line, an old painted bobber, and a collapsible tin cup felt as if it was waiting just for me. I've got a special weakness for string wound around scraps of wood, which I find beautiful things, and clearly the person who kept this box let nothing go to waste, using clothes pins, whole or broken, to wind even short lengths of