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[leviathanrick]

Found these 3 items on three different days in the same general area of a church yard. All of them are sterling silver. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

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[HutSiteDigger]

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[bryanleemc]

Cool, but no clue....

 

[leviathanrick]

I meet a woman that told me the the two small flat pieces are for pulling and weaving ribbon. Can anyone confirm?

 

[Red-Coat]

I meet a woman that told me the the two small flat pieces are for pulling and weaving ribbon. Can anyone confirm?

Just tidying up some blasts from the past (including some very ancient ones), largely for the benefit of anyone searching the site for information.

The flat items are indeed bodkins, for threading ribbons and tapes through hems or stitched piping/casing and they come in different sizes… like these:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235286875589

Those are from Simons Brothers but several companies made them and the larger one posted has the trademark for the William H. Hayden Company, active in Newark, NJ from c.1904-1909.

Whether or not the barrel-shaped item belongs with them as part of a set of sewing/dressmaking items I don’t know. It might be for holding sewing needles or something, but with the top (?) rim sloping inwards it’s difficult to see how it could be securely lidded.