Chatelaines

8/687 = $544 [England] Cut-steel 6 patterned chains of cut steel 4 that are matching, plus 2 thinner chains chain 1: folding steel scissors that are folded with points hidden chain 2: folding steel corkscrew & a horseshoe-shaped pinwheel chain 3: steel penknife & chain coin purse chain 4: steel needlebook that opens with folded leather needle packet with original threads chain 5: steel notebook with ivory leaves chain 6: steel propelling pencil & a steel open-ended container with wax - dried - clasp corkscrew coin purse pincushion notebook scissors penknife pencil needlebook wax

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Crochet hooks

14/7 = $8 England - Aluminium alloy Stratnoid Pat No 151307 size 8 135mm 14/9 = $8 England - Aluminium alloy Stratnoid Pat No 151307 ] size 14 128mm e35 = $3 England - Steel Patterned shank - worn - size 3 126mm e37 = $3 Steel Morris & Y Lomans patterned shank - worn - size 1? 126mm

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Darning mushrooms

bk865 = $5 Painted wood 110mm - paint worn off top of mushroom - uu504 = $5 Painted cream wood painted blue underneath 103mm

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Emeries

8/426 = $27 [Japan] Silk Pre WW2 33mm - silk faded & worn -

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Handwork

8/481 = $22 Bristol board [perforated card] handwork Modern Love stitched to represent a weighing scale threads suspend the "weights" modern piece of perspex affixed to support the scale

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Knitting needles

uu506 = $5 Australia Bamboo size 4 1/2

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Knitting needle gauges

bk1046 = $8 Australia? Rainsford needle gauge sizes 1-22

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Lace bobbins

8/381 = $60 England - wooden Early 19th century Eight, for Honiton lace making similar designs of incisions, stained in alternating red & black - some have the staining worn - Antique wooden lace bobbins with spangles traditionally come from the East Midlands of England, Victorian 1840-1900. All are inscised & the number in ( ) is the number of beads in the spangle. The timber is usually dark 8/392 = $20 England - wooden Mid-Victorian spangle is a glass opalescent button 8/394 = $20 England - wooden Mid-Victorian spangle with two green faceted glass beads, with shanks (3) 8/395 = $20 England - wooden Mid-Victorian spangle with black faceted glass bottom bead (4) 8/399 = $23 England - wooden Mid-Victorian spangle (9) 8/403 = $20 England - wooden Mid-Victorian spangle beads are small (7) 8/404 = $22 England - wooden Mid-Victorian spangle beads are clear, amber & turquoise (5) 8/405 = $22 England - wooden Mid-Victorian spangle beads are pink, clear & brown (7) 8/406 = $25 England - wooden Mid-Victorian spangle beads are pinks (Venetian glass) & clear (5) 8/390 = $10 England - wooden Modern (1980s) pale wood, using old glass bead spangles (5) 8/1331 = $15 England - wooden Mid-Victorian one long berry-shaped crystal bead (5) 110mm 8/1332 = $12 England - wooden Mid-Victorian 1 large clear bead (5) 95mm 8/1339 = $15 England - wooden Mid-Victorian (9) beads 100mm 8/1342 = $22 England - wooden Mid-Victorian pewter insets 99mm - beads missing - 8/1345 = $12 England - wooden Mid-Victorian pewter insets 91mm - beads missing - 8/1346 = $10 England - wooden Mid-Victorian (1) glass button bead 89mm 8/1347 = $10 England - wooden Mid-Victorian for Honiton lace 83mm 8/1349 = $15 England - wooden Mid-Victorian (4) beads 85mm 8/1350 = $15 England - wooden Mid-Victorian pewter insets there are 2 ‘slices’ along the shaft – purpose unknown 100mm - it gives shaft a skew shape - - beads missing - 8/1352 = $15 England - wooden Mid-Victorian (5) beads 67mm 8/1355 = $25 England - wooden Mid-Victorian finely wound brass wire 6 glass beads; 2 Venetian glass 90mm 8/1356 = $25 England - wooden Mid-Victorian shaft decorated with patterned metal/pewter 5 glass beads; 1 Venetian glass 94mm 8/1358 = $88 England - bone early-Victorian small red & blue painted dots motto: Benjamin Jarvis…1846… 6 glass beads; + 1 Venetian glass 106mm 8/1359 = $25 England - bone Mid-Victorian brass wire & blue and red dots 5 glass beads; 1 Venetian glass 89mm 8/1361 = $80 England - bone early-Victorian shaft decorated with small red & blue painted dots ‘words’ in a spiral, forming a motto: My love is at a distance but forever in mind … - beads missing - 97mm 8/1362 = $30 England - bone early-Victorian red painted grooves 6 glass beads; + 1 Venetian glass 92mm 8/1363 = $10 England - wooden Mid-Victorian for Honiton lace alternating red & black painted grooves 83mm 8/1370 = $40 England - bone early-Victorian Joan or John in red dots blue & red dots & red painted rings (8) beads 93mm 8/1372 = $40 England - bone early-Victorian Eliza in red dots red & blue dots on opposing side (4) beads + 1 Venetian glass 91mm 8/1373 = $32 England - wooden Mid-Victorian Oliver in dots (4) beads + 1 small shoe button 110mm 8/1374 = $18 England - wooden Mid-Victorian inlaid with darker wood (4) beads + 1 Venetian glass 90mm - 2 inlays missing - 8/1375 = $40 England - bone early-Victorian George in brown dots red & blue dots on opposing side (4) beads + 1 Venetian glass 79mm 8/1608 = $25 Wood some pewter insets & tightly woven wire (6) beads 92mm 8/1610 = $22 Bone (6) beads - one Venetian 99mm 8/1611 = $16 Wood for Honiton lace carved with crude vase of flowers 1850 97mm 8/1612 = $38 Bone inscribed Harrot in dots (10) beads + one Venetian 88mm 8/1613 = $38 Bone inscribed James blue and red dots on verso (5) beads 99mm 8/1614 = $30 Bone brass wire bands (6) beads + one Venetian 8/1617 = $8 Wood for Honiton Lace 99mm 8/1620 = $8 Wood for Honiton lace 84mm 8/1621 = $22 Wood with some pewter insets (7) beads 89mm 8/1622 = $35 Bone inscribed I long to Marry (?) over two sides in dots flanked with red & blue dots (8) beads 91mm

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Linen Stretchers

8/1381 = $13 metal disc The Linen Stretcher is given away with every 1/- bottle of “Melanyl” Marking Ink - some wear to paper label - 52mm

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Lucets replica of an 18th C tool used for making square cord

uu520 = $5 wood commemorating Needlework Tool Collectors Society of Australia's conference 2002 includes directions how to use the lucet

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Needlebooks

8/1635 = $28 Germany The Sydney Harbour Bridge Needle-Book Registered contains five paper needle packets with a few needles in each

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Needlecases / Needleholders

8/594 = $66 Beaded 1810s empty 60mm - one end of the case has no beads-worn off? - - tiny amount of beading worn off - - doesn’t detract from a lovely piece of Victoriana - 8/1216 = $51 Bone & vegetable ivory furled parasol-shape with corozo nut top - with crack inside - - shallow crack on shaft - - mend near threaded edge with a tiny chip - - grubby - - parasol handle missing - - empty - 100mm 8/1220 = $22 Bone - crack on inner surface of lid - - empty - 90mm 8/1383 = $200 England brass known as Sovereign Case flowers with stylised daisy on each side Registered June 1872 lettered on 3 needle packets inside suspension loop at one end - there should be 4 packets – - one on the left is missing but no damage shows with this - 51x32mm without loop 19/96 = $13 Painted wood contains rusty needles uu680 = $18 South Africa yellowwood empty 70mm rr122 = $24 England Brass Jahncke's Mitrailleuse advertising Kirby Beard & Co Ltd Needle manufacturer. London, Birmingham, Redditch & Paris contains needles 59mm - instructions for use still legible - - signs of wear -

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Netting gauges

8/1605 = $12 Ivory? smooth with slight indents to form a very slight handle at one end 152x21mm 8/1606 = $8 Bone smooth 149x22mm

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