Old Wooden Bobbin Egg Timer handmade basket bit I think its all

bit I think its all the better for it

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

Opens fine and closes tightly

or past and future

Old Wooden Bobbin Egg Timer handmade basket bit I think its allHow 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