On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:35:59PM -0400, Tamara P. Duvall wrote: > On Thursday, Jun 26, 2003, at 21:27 US/Eastern, Jane Viking Swanson > wrote:
> I was thinking "lamp finial" (what with the hole at the bottom), but > Jean spoiled *my* sport too, with the "thread barrel" follow-up... > Definitely from the same set of whatever, but can't imagine what it > might have ben used for. *Not* thread, though -- those steel beads (do > they date the whole thing to the Art Deco period?) would have shredded > any thread bold enough to come in contact with them... :) I don't think it's a hole, the description says ebony on the inside. It might be a weight of some kind to keep something taut, perhaps hitched the same way as a bobbin. Can't think of what though. -Liz - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
