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Aunt George
True Blue Farmgirl
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Georgann
Midlothian
VA
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 Posted - Jun 07 2007 : 11:04:34 AM
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I don't know what some of these things are, but I got them in a box for less than ten dollars today. The tatting shuttle is dated 1923 and still has thread on it. Are the little bobbins next to it tatting bobbins to hold thread? I'm also wondering if the metal thing next to the red box is a sock darner? Anyone have any clue to some of these things? The tiny crochet hook is ivory, that I do know...not a plastic substitute.
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ktknits
True Blue Farmgirl
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Kathy
Northwest Indiana
USA
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Posted - Jun 07 2007 : 11:42:37 AM
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Georgann, you are an **Awesome** shopper!! I wanta go with you! Those bobbins look pretty big for a tatting shuttle, but I'm not quite sure what else they'd be for, unless they're for weaving. The weaving ones now are plastic, but at one time they might very well have been metal. Just my guess!
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sunshine
True Blue Farmgirl
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Wendy
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jun 07 2007 : 11:54:34 AM
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can you send me bigger pictures in an email so I can see better. Cool to have a tatting shuttle that old. Knitting knobby vintage crochet hook ( lovely) the spools look like they belonged to a womans sunday box for things she only would work on on sunday, stitch guide,, ruffler fpt, trim feeder for sewing machine rolled edge foot lint brush apholstery needles I can't see the rest well enough to say what they are
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
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Edited by - sunshine on Jun 07 2007 11:59:39 AM |
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Jun 07 2007 : 11:56:07 AM
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Georgeann- Most of the metal attachments are different presser feet for an old machine (Singer I guess from the box).I have an old White that has similar attachments: ruffler, pleater, smocker,bias tape maker, etc.) If you can find out the model you can probably locate a manual on line that will illustrate each one, hopefully clearly!
The wooden thread spool with the nails on top was used to teach beginning knitting and it made a chain stitch/tube sort of thing that you could stitch together to "create" with. Mostly a "kid" type craft similar to a Knitting Jenny if you know what that is! Does the bulbous metal thing look like it could have had sewing machine oil in it? I remember my Gran had something very similar for her machine with a little spout and cap.
Looks like you did well regardless of what they are!
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Ronna
True Blue Farmgirl
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Ronna
Fernley
NV
USA
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Posted - Jun 07 2007 : 1:22:37 PM
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My mothers sewing machine as I was growing up had that kind of bobbin. I must still have some in with her sewing stuff. Love those old boxes, no telling what one might find. Ivory crochet hook...that's worth what you paid by itself.
Isn't it fun to see what someone saved so many years ago.
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MariaAZ
True Blue Farmgirl
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Phoenix
AZ
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Posted - Jun 07 2007 : 4:14:55 PM
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I'm with Ronna on the bobbins. I have a late 1800's Singer sewing machine, and have purchased bobbins that look exactly like those.
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levisgrammy
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Denise
Beavercreek
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Jun 07 2007 : 4:41:36 PM
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Wow Georgann great finds! I have an old singer that uses those attachments. The same box came with mine. I got the machine and stuff for it on ebay for 79. It came in a blonde maple cabinet. I was so happy to find one. It is just like my Mom's.
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Aunt George
True Blue Farmgirl
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Georgann
Midlothian
VA
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Posted - Jun 07 2007 : 5:09:55 PM
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Thanks everyone for responding. I had no idea those bobbins would fit a machine. I have loaded the photos on my blog Sunshine, so if you would like to see them up close, click on the photos and it blows them up huge!!
The tiny crochet hook is smooth and feels real good in the hand...it has been well loved!
Thanks, G
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sunshine
True Blue Farmgirl
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Wendy
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jun 07 2007 : 6:04:42 PM
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bottom photo
left top
braid
white two of them top and bottom look like middy braid can tell on the middle one
moving down zipper foot/ cording feet
moving right and up
moving right the adjustable hemmer
moving right quilting edge
top right item edge stitcher lace -joining and piping attachment
felt circle goes below spool on sewing machine
down moving right to left now
foot hemmer
looks like a 1/4 inch quilter foot not sure without measuring
binder - binding foot
unknown item
lint brush
upholstery's needles
crochet hook
knitting knobby
acid lace
sunday bobbins might be machine bobbins
not sure what the big metal bulbus thing is in the top right corner
middle photo
most already labbled in previous photo
tatting shuttle looks like a boye shuttle
big metal itme a tuck marker for making pin tucks and such
top photo
not sure what teh bid box is with metal items in it can't see it very well most other items I have already named
i hope this helps you some
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
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Aunt George
True Blue Farmgirl
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Georgann
Midlothian
VA
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Posted - Jun 08 2007 : 04:12:59 AM
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Oh, Sunshine....thank you for all of your knowledge! That bulbus metal thingie is I think a sock darner/bodkin? Anyway, the thin handle unscrews and there is a conical shaped tip with a hole in the very tip end of it.
I sure hope I can figure out all of these feet. The green Singer box held feet in pristine condition. They are a low shank foot with a side screw pin mount so they may not fit my machine, but the black box holds feet that will. They slide in from the front on a low shank.
Thank you again to everyone....it is so much fun to find treasures like this occasionally!!!
Only we seamstresses get all goose bumpy when finding a box like this one!! LOL...the guy at the antique shop where I found this, just looked at me like I was crazy. He started looking in the box and rearranging things and I almost grabbed it all away from him. I was afraid he'd start taking things out of the red tackle box. LOL
Mine, mine.....LOL......G
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Vintage Redhead
True Blue Farmgirl
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Kaylyn
Saint Charles
IL
USA
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Posted - Jun 08 2007 : 06:28:03 AM
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On your bobbins: I suspect that these originated as *metal industrial bobbins* due to their odd shape. Someone came across them, either as a result of work or a pure finding. She probably used them to hold her tatting threads to distinguish them from her other threads...remember the poor lighting conditions of yesteryear...so that her search would be easier.
Your "bulbous" tool...now this sounds weird, but it looks like a "yankee chuck" which is a hand-drill. My other hunch is that it is a broken oiling device for the missing Singer. Sock darners are usually round, elliptical, or true oval. Not that it *can't* be...anything is always possible!...it would just be the first time *I've* seen one like this.
What an *AWESOME* find!!! How fun!! ~ K
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