Old Wooden Bobbin Egg Timer handmade basket especially visible around the lip

especially visible around the lip

but he is my favorite by far

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

Opens fine and closes tightly

Old Wooden Bobbin Egg Timer handmade basket especially visible around the lipHow 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