It’s wonderful that one of those specialty yard sticks should still exist. At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, there were rather strict rules about how high a tween and young teen-aged girls hems should be from the floor. This stick was used to make sure that the girl was properly dressed.
I collect boxes from my travels. They’re usually inexpensive, easy to pack and useful for storing odds and ends. I have several Russian lacquer boxes, a Bermuda cedar box with a hog penny in the lid and different varieties of containers from First Nation people in Alaska and Canada.
Mr. Pons and I are also collectors of books. One wall of our living room is about 25 ft. Long and it’s completely covered with books 6 shelves deep.