[BCMA] Mystery Object

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If the ends are smooth, it may have been used as a turner for sewn belts 
or straps. I use a short hard plastic straw for smaller tubes. You 
fitthe inside out sewn tube over the pipe and scrunch it up so the end 
is visible. Then you use a piece of dowling or something like it to push 
the sewn end of the tube through the tube so you can grab it at the 
other end. Pull it all the way through and your tube is now right side out.

Val Patenaude

Director
Maple Ridge Museum & Archives
Haney House Museum
604.463.5311

On 5/31/2016 11:41 AM, Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv. wrote:
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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.
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> 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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