<div dir="ltr">A Google image search of "vintage industrial bobbins" brings up a few that look similar. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bcma@lists.vifa.ca" target="_blank">bcma@lists.vifa.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> Possibly something like this:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/30000/nahled/bobbin-of-thread-02.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/30000/nahled/bobbin-of-thread-02.jpg</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <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>]
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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<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></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:<u></u><u></u></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.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Good luck!</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">William Shepherd</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Swift Current, Saskatchewan</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 31, 2016 12:42 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [BCMA] Mystery Object<u></u><u></u></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.</span><u></u><u></u></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? </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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