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Title: What is this? 5-26
Post by: remrogers on May 26, 2018, 09:03:36 AM

(https://s19.postimg.cc/e8rapageb/mystery_3-1.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

Title: Re: What is this? 5-26
Post by: remrogers on May 26, 2018, 09:05:02 AM

Forgot to say it is about fourteen inches in lenght.

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Post by: bambam on May 26, 2018, 10:02:27 AM

some type of plumb bob ?

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Post by: chieftain on May 26, 2018, 11:43:07 AM

spool bobbin for thread.?

Title: Re: What is this? 5-26
Post by: remrogers on May 26, 2018, 01:35:27 PM

Chieftain is close. This is a drop spindle. Used to spin wool into yarn without a cumbersome spinning wheel, drop spindles were used in many places around the world before the advent of industrial fiber processing machines.

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