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

I believe all related to  products in an old Sears or general store catalog

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

I wanted to keep this whole

with the red cheeks

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