[BCMA] Mystery Object

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Hello All,

                Possibly something like this:

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http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/30000/nahled/bobbin-of-thread-02.jpg

William Shepherd
Collections Officer
Swift Current Museum
44 Robert Street West
Swift Current, Saskatchewan
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Phone: 306-778-4815
Fax: 306-778-4818

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Looks too large to be a bobbin, and it doesn't have a lip at the top or bottom to prevent the thread from slipping off.  I'll forward to a friend who may have an idea.

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On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv. <bcma at lists.vifa.ca<mailto:bcma at lists.vifa.ca>> wrote:
Hello Oana,

                It’s hard to see from the image but possibly a bobbin of some sort? Being a tailors and it having a hollow core possibly it was wound with thread and placed on a peg of a sewing machine? I’ve worked with some sewing machines that would have used something similar, though much smaller, but this may be a ‘professional’ thread bobbin.

                There may be a better term than bobbin, I feel like I’m saying it a lot. I’ve attached an image of a sewing machine from our educational collection. The bobbin of thread would go on that peg and be threaded through.

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Good luck!

William Shepherd
Collections Officer
Swift Current Museum
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Swift Current, Saskatchewan
S9H 4M9
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Fax: 306-778-4818<tel:306-778-4818>

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Subject: [BCMA] Mystery Object

A visitor came into the museum a few nights ago to ask us if we could identify something in her collection.

Does anyone know what this is?  It’s a hollow wooden tube with a dark green label.  From the label we could make out only the name of the store, Collisters, which sold sewing goods.  Thus it’s probably something used by tailors?

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