This piece of wax was found in a small tackle box believed to have belonged to George Washington, and may have been used to wax the line or prepare a fly. Washington enjoyed fishing both as a gentleman's contemplative recreation and as a practical means of securing provisions while on the frontier. His diary records successful catches of a dolphin and shark in Barbados, a legendary catfish in the Ohio Country, and trout and perch during the recess of the Constitutional Convention in the hot summer of 1787.

See also the tackle box, W-2201/A-B, and additional tackle, W-2201/C-Y.