OK, I'll bite. Looks to me like it could be an old cookie press. Under the first disk with holes you can see the next one will holes placed differently. Could be a set of different patterns.
Debbie At 10:58 AM 11/16/2007 +0000, you wrote: >Hi All, > >Just my four penn'orth! It looks to me as if it is the parts from >the inside of an old sewing box - thread reels and pin/needle >holders, and suchlike. My mother and my sister have items just >like that in their antique sewing boxes. > >Carol - in Suffolk UK > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny De Angelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:05 AM >Subject: [lace] Re: Lacemaking tool > > >>Does the smaller top part, looks like it has a knob at the top, >>unscrew? Does the bone/ivory part come out of the wooden casing >>completely? It looks like it should come out of it's casing. >> >>Is so then cold it be some kind of sewing kit, holding sewing >>needles/reel of thread or something like that? An Etui I think is >>the spelling. >> >>Regards >>Jenny DeAngelis >>Spain. >>- >>To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: >>unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >- >To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: >unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
