Some Time, in Some Way, Will Come Your Wedding Day, Handmade Friendship Token of Sorts with Fabulous Fancy Lettering antique advertisement and because it's nice to

and because it's nice to keep things together

I found this lovely old burl this week too

I'd display it next to a bowl of carefully chosen stone fruit

and seems perhaps to intersect with an S

found this week in New Hampshire

Some Time, in Some Way, Will Come Your Wedding Day, Handmade Friendship Token of Sorts with Fabulous Fancy Lettering antique advertisement and because it's nice toI found this in Gloucester, one town over from Essex, MA where it originated a good hundred years ago at least. And a quick search turns up numerous generations of John H. Wilkins's from in and around Essex county, so surely the John who "composed" this had plenty of friends from Essex. Whether created immediately in advance of this particular lovely friend's wedding as a wedding gift, or in the days of just imagining it, I don't know for sure though