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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 31, 2016 3:38 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [BCMA] Mystery Object<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv. <<a href="mailto:bcma@lists.vifa.ca" target="_blank">bcma@lists.vifa.ca</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hello Oana,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Good luck!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Swift Current, Saskatchewan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="mailto:bcma-bounces@lists.vifa.ca" target="_blank">bcma-bounces@lists.vifa.ca</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:bcma-bounces@lists.vifa.ca" target="_blank">bcma-bounces@lists.vifa.ca</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 31, 2016 12:42 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> '<a href="mailto:bcma@lists.vifa.ca" target="_blank">bcma@lists.vifa.ca</a>' <<a href="mailto:bcma@lists.vifa.ca" target="_blank">bcma@lists.vifa.ca</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [BCMA] Mystery Object<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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? </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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