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Collection: Antique Sewing Tools

A selection of antique sewing tools available for immediate purchase- old needle cases, vintage pin cushions, chatelaines, scissors, antique thimbles, bodkins, tape measures, etui …
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161 products
  • A super two-tone pearl tape measure. c 1840
    A fine mother of pearl tape measure. c1840
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    £70.00
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  • Two commemorative thimbles George V & Queen Mary's Jubilee 1935
    Two base metal thimbles commemorating George V Jubilee
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    £60.00
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  • Faceted steel netting clamp. c 1800
    An antique steel sewing clamp used when netting. c 1800
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    £90.00
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  • An unusual metal buttonhole cutter. 'Walker's Patent' wrapper. 19thc
    A Patent Buttonhole Cutter.
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    £48.00
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  • SOLD…..A vegetable ivory needle case. c 1850
    A vegetable ivory needle case. c 1850
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  • A Painted Tunbridge Ware thread barrel. c 1800-1830
    A painted Tunbridge Ware cotton barrel. c 1800
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  • A good quality red leather cased sewing set. c 1900- 1920
    A good quality red leather cased sewing set. c 1900- 1920
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    £75.00
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  • A pearl silk winder from a sewing set. c 1830
    A mother of pearl thread winder. Palais Royal.
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    £30.00
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  • A decorative silver thimble. Charles Horner Chester 1899
    An antique silver thimble by Charles Horner. Chester 1899
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    £38.00
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  • A finely carved vegetable ivory thimble and matching case. c 1850
    A finely carved vegetable ivory thimble and matching case.  c 1850
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    £135.00
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  • A French silver thimble with applied border. c 1870
    An antique French silver thimble with an apllied decorative border. c1870
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    £27.00
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  • Little Dorcas steel clad thimble. Charles Horner. c 1910
    A Little Dorcas thimble by Charles Horner c 1910
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  • A Tartan Ware thread waxer, tape measure and emery cushion. Clan Mc Pherson.
    A Tartan Ware combination sewing tool-a tape measure, emery and thread waxer. McPherson.  c1860
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  • A Tartan Ware double ended emery cushion. Caledonia. c 1860
    An old double ended emery cushion in the Caledonian pattern  tartan.  c 1860
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    £65.00
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  • Order of Santiago-Spanish silver thimble. 19thc
    An old Spanish silver thimble. 19th century.
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    £20.00
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  • A long, decoratively engraved, cut steel chatelaine with six appendages. c 1850.
    An engraved 19th century cut steel sewing chatelaine.
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    £250.00
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