Hi All, An interesting theme!
I also have an ivory bobbin. One of my father's elder brothers was in the Army, in India, and brought the bobbin home - I can't verify much about it now, as he died at the outbreak of war (TB, brought on by service in India, and playing the trumpet in the Regimental band) but it is definitely ivory. I have no idea whether these ivory bobbins were made as 'one-off' specials - I suspect so, as the ivory would have been too expensive for any local lacemakers, and possibly the British services and administrators were the only ones to have the money to pay for such 'fancy' items.
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