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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
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Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
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 Posted - Jul 25 2021 : 12:56:18 PM
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Wowzers!
These were some expensive sewing needles...
Boye needle company... These are size 11 needles in little glass tubes...
Back in the days... When Sewing wasn't a Hobby but rather a necessity... A package like this cost $1.50... yikes!
Back in the turn of the century up until the late 1940's... Wages were nothing like they are today...
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17444 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17444 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2021 : 1:07:53 PM
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What I don't know is if the price was per needle or for all of them in the wooden holder.
I'll have to do some research.
But it makes sense that a shop would have these wooden containers filled, and each containers would have different sized needles and noted on the top of the lid. Size 11,
size 12, etc .
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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churunga
True Blue Farmgirl
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Marie
Minneapolis
MN
USA
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Posted - Jul 25 2021 : 2:11:37 PM
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My mother had a similar Boye needle package. I remember using the needles inside it. I wonder if she still has it.
Marie
Sister #5142
Farmgirl of the Month May 2014
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
7672 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
7672 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2021 : 3:30:55 PM
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I have a needle sales container that was at the store to hold the containers of needles and bobbins. I bought it at an antique shop and it is about 1/3 full of bobbins, shuttles and needles - many of these little cases - some empty but most have some in them. There is a dial on top where you dial in the machine you have and it tells you what needles and bobbins to use. The bobbins are the long spindle ones. I wish I had a place to display it. It does not hand on the wall - it has to sit flat.
Here are pictures:
 
 
 
Farmgirl hugs,
Linda
Terrell, TX
Farm girl #1919
Farm Girl of the Month August 2015 and April 2017
"Women are Angels, and when someone breaks our wings, we simply continue to fly . . . on a broomstick - we're flexible, like that."
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JeanP
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jean
Deary
ID
USA
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Posted - Jul 25 2021 : 4:39:33 PM
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Oh Grace and Linda -- what treasures!!!
"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17444 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17444 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2021 : 11:50:40 PM
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Oh Linda,, that is Koolieo!
I have several little wooden needle holders,, that we probably 'Freebies" They have the store name and address' on them,,
Which brings to mind,,, who remembers getting free shoe horns, pocket rain caps, little sewing kits, thimbles etc from shops and Banks...
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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JeanP
True Blue Farmgirl
1284 Posts
Jean
Deary
ID
USA
1284 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2021 : 10:26:15 AM
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. . . and juice glasses in boxes of washing powder . . . and S&H Green Stamps . . . . and secret decoder rings in boxes of cereal . . . Well, I remember Mama telling me all about them. I'm much too young to remember such things . . . LOL
"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
7672 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
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Posted - Jul 26 2021 : 10:31:28 AM
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Lol I still have some S&H stamps - somewhere. I've gotten card table w/chairs and lots of other stuff with the stamps
Farmgirl hugs,
Linda
Terrell, TX
Farm girl #1919
Farm Girl of the Month August 2015 and April 2017
"Women are Angels, and when someone breaks our wings, we simply continue to fly . . . on a broomstick - we're flexible, like that."
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17444 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17444 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2021 : 9:02:32 PM
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I was the "Blue Chip" stamp queen... It cost me 54 books of Blue Chips to buy my 1st upright vacuum, a Hoover and I still have it... But now compared to the modern ones, it weighs a ton and noisy as all get out!! Lol!
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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