Old Wooden Bobbin Egg Timer handmade basket often in the form of

often in the form of “whitework” - white thread on white cotton

looking great on the windowsill

especially visible around the lip

Opens fine and closes tightly

has holes all around the perimeter that would have been threaded with twine or yarn in order to keep the slate from banging on the surface of a school desk--thus chalkboards like this are often called "silent" chalkboards

Old Wooden Bobbin Egg Timer handmade basket often in the form ofHow much nicer to use this old hourglass timer than one's phone to track the minutes while boiling an egg, or to keep your Scrabble partner from taking forever?! At some point it must have been a thing to repurpose old wooden spools this way, and wisely so; it's a pretty great object, with a satisfying scale and weight a pleasure to use but also nice just sitting on the shelf. I got distracted for a minute while testing it but believe it measures 4