As Found - Old Pickwick Inn CT Chocolate Tin Filled with Fishing Line Winders and Bobber paint case I hate taking things apart

I hate taking things apart

which one imagines were etched  into the clay with whatever pointy stick or tool was handy

The lid is attached by nice hinges

and in a nice brass mount

Certainly it could be used now as a small paperweight or just an interesting object to have sitting around

As Found - Old Pickwick Inn CT Chocolate Tin Filled with Fishing Line Winders and Bobber paint case I hate taking things apartIt 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