✅ SOLVED ID Needed on Wooden Object

[diggummup]

For those who don't know me, I go to a lot of estate sales and such on the weekends. Sometimes I'll buy something just because I (and the person selling it) don't know what it is. This is one such onject. I paid a quarter for it. It's just over 12" long and 2.5" in diameter at ther large end that is pictured. The holed are straight and go all the way through it. There is a hole that goes through the entirety of the piece also. Inserted in the large end is a brass sleeve that is about 1" long. Any ideas? Here are the pics-

 

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[mojjax]

I'm thinking maybe a spindle - from a yarn factory

 

[ctalmadg]

It's a Weaving loom spindle/Yarn Bobbin

 

[clovis97]

Yes, it is a spool for yarn or thread.

It was very fashionable to buy these at antique stores, and use them in your home as a candle holder.

I still think they are cool, and have three of them, all with candles in them.

 

[Tnmountains]

Yep from a yarn factory. You guys are good!

 

[diggummup]

Thanks everyone. Now that you mention it, there were a lot of quilting and sewing type notions at that house. Just surprised the woman selling the stuff didn't know what it was. She wasn't a spring chicken, lol.

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

that is a factory sized bobbin...

 

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[clovis97]

Wasn't there a movie that featured a short clip of a young child whose job it was to change out these bobbins and spools when they broke? I remember seeing it, but cannot place the movie.

As you know, back before there were child labor laws, manufacturers would hire young children to change out these spools. Children could get their hands into the tight spaces of the machines more easily than adults...and the kids could be hired cheap. Definitely a sad time in history.