Tatting hook of bone handle shaft of iron hook set into smaller end.
Tool has handle of elongated teardrop shape, somewhat flattened in cross-section. Wire-like shaft with rounded hook on tip is set into handle. Shaft is thicker than hooked end.
Provenance
Collected by Lillian Hollings Kiker, born to Scottish Americans who lived in New Jersey. Born (1912) and lived in New Jersey, last of Egg Harbor, she was active with quilting, sewing, knitting & crocheting. Collection inherited by donor when her mother passed away.
Set of tatting tools, nickel silver plated steel, has four pieces. Each piece has in common the shaped and decorated portions, the handles of the three tools and the needle case body. This feature is a flattened octagonal shape in cross-section, with successive divots ground out with a round grinding wheel. Handles and case all taper along their length.
A. Needle case is 2.75" long and .375" wide. At the heavier end of case is a fitted cap that slides onto a smaller male extension protruding from main body. Seam visible along sides where both halves of case have been joined.
B. Hook on handle is 4" long and .25" wide. Tapers from handle end down to where shaft is attached. Shaft has ball-and-ring at handle, a slight swell along length and a minute hook at tip.
C. Awl is 3.625" long and .25" wide. Same handle as above. Shaft is similar in shape except heavier and shorter and has a sharp tip.
D. Threading tool(?) is 3" long and .5" long. Same handle as above. Shaft is shorter and has a large open loop in a teardrop shape.
Provenance
Collected by Lillian Hollings Kiker, born to Scottish Americans who lived in New Jersey. Born (1912) and lived in New Jersey, last of Egg Harbor, she was active with quilting, sewing, knitting & crocheting. Collection inherited by donor when her mother passed away.
Mogul Cigarette Silk featuring President James Buchanan
Manufactured in New York, circa 1912-1915
Interesting ephemera featuring James Buchanan.
The complete set featured 24 Presidents and were collected then and now.
Mogul was an expensive hand-rolled all-Turkish cigarette that was started by an independent maker in New York City and by 1914 was owned by the American Tobacco Company.
After an anti-trust suit ATC was split into smaller companies with a focus on “standard cigarettes” that could be more efficiently mass-produced and sold at a lower cost. As the tobacco industry became more competitive, finer brands of cigarettes struggled in the marketplace and resorted to marketing methods such as these silks to retain their popularity.
Provenance: Donor found in family items while cleaning.
Set of 3 steel tatting hooks, no handles. All are similar with round, tapering shanks that terminate in tiny hooks of differing sizes. Theaded at other end for fitting into a handle, now missing. Double ring turnings adjacent to threads.
Provenance
Collected by Lillian Hollings Kiker, born to Scottish Americans who lived in New Jersey. Born (1912) and lived in New Jersey, last of Egg Harbor, she was active with quilting, sewing, knitting & crocheting. Collection inherited by donor when her mother passed away.
Small tool with thin curving blade set into a turned wood handle and brass ferrule. Saber-like blade is brass, having a small slot cut into bottom edge near tip.
Used for warping a loom by pulling warp ends through the reed.
Cast silver wax holder in shape of a small walnut. Identical halves of nut are attached at one end and partially open at the other. Interior is filled with beeswax for drawing thread through, and multiple score marks are evident in wax. Hanging ring at fixed end.
a. Appel Jeweler memo book: Two metal pieces with 2 paper 'pages' between them. A corner grommet keeps book together and by swiveling, pages are revealed. (Penciled notes appear on 3 sides.) Top cover has raised floral corner designs on 2 corners with engraved: "Compliments of/ Appel Jeweler/ Lanc. PA./ ? 1901"
b..Raub Supply Co. pencil: Painted yellow with red at one end. In red letters: "Quality Service for 52 years;" in center, in green letters: "Raub Supply Co./ Distributors/ Plumber, Tinners, Heating,/ Electrical & Industrial Supplies/ Lancaster, PA Williamsport, PA/ Harrisburg, PA Winchester, VA."
c. Edith Stubb's Dress Shop "Handy-Mender Needle & Thread Case." Opens like a matchbook to reveal a stapled cardboard piece with threads of white,brown, black and apricot wrapped around it. One side of cover shows exotic birds and flowers in red and blue. On the other side: "Edith M./ Stubbs/ Dresses, Coats/ Cosmetics and/ Hosiery/ 136 N. Duke St./ Lancaster, Pa./ PHONE 2-2169."
d. Coble's Tire Service Air Gauge Key Case (Box, Blue plastic guage and envelope containing pin, washer and screws for attaching keys to case along with directions..
e. Coble's Tire Service pencil, shaped like a long painted silver nail. In blue letters on pencil: "Seiberling Tires/ When you pick up a nail/ Dial 6284 Coble's Tire Service/ Lancaster, PA."
f.: "Edith M. Stubbs/Lancaster, PA" stitched in white on black satiny ribbon garment label.Two labels on once piece.
Molded cake of beeswax for waxing thread. Oval shape, flat bottom and domed top has molded raised image of a person milking a cow. Perimeter of oval has border of lobed scallops. Surface of wax cake is speckled with black particles of paint or similar substance.
