As Found - Old Pickwick Inn CT Chocolate Tin Filled with Fishing Line Winders and Bobber turtle pull toy with the red cheeks

with the red cheeks

suggesting that it was made to hold something fairly precious

and so feels as if revealing something about the spirit of the subject

I wanted to keep this whole

I've done some digging and have found a few Ebenezer Averill's from these parts from the 18th and 19th centuries

As Found - Old Pickwick Inn CT Chocolate Tin Filled with Fishing Line Winders and Bobber turtle pull toy with the red cheeksIt 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