[BCMA] Mystery Object

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Hello from Comox Archives and Museum:  We think it is a wool spinner -
cheers - Marcia

 

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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.

 



 

Good luck!

 

William Shepherd

Collections Officer

Swift Current Museum

44 Robert Street West

Swift Current, Saskatchewan

S9H 4M9

Phone: 306-778-4815

Fax: 306-778-4818

 

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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?  

 



 

Oana Capota | Museum Curator 

 

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