As Found - Old Pickwick Inn CT Chocolate Tin Filled with Fishing Line Winders and Bobber turtle pull toy I wanted to keep this

I wanted to keep this whole

with the red cheeks

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

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

and provocative

As Found - Old Pickwick Inn CT Chocolate Tin Filled with Fishing Line Winders and Bobber turtle pull toy I wanted to keep thisIt 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