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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hello Oana,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> 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.<br>
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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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Good luck!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> bcma-bounces@lists.vifa.ca [mailto:bcma-bounces@lists.vifa.ca]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 31, 2016 12:42 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'bcma@lists.vifa.ca' <bcma@lists.vifa.ca><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [BCMA] Mystery Object<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">A visitor came into the museum a few nights ago to ask us if we could identify something in her collection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">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? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><img width="266" height="354" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D1BB47.94AEC990"></span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Oana Capota
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