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18th Century Material Culture

Sewing & Tailoring Tools

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Irons

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Goose18th Century

(Private Collection)

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Detail: QUARRELSOME TAYLORS or TWO of a TRADE SELDOM AGREEby Carington Bowles

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Goose

18th Century(Private Collection)

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Cast Base of a Flat or Sad Iron

Excavated from Fort Stanwix(Fort Stanwix)

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Trade Card

18th Century(Private Collection)

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A Maid Ironing with a Box Iron

by Henry Robert Morland(University of Waterloo)

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A Maid Ironing with a Box Iron

by Henry Robert Morland(University of Waterloo)

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A Maid Ironing with a Box Iron

by Henry Robert Morland(University of Waterloo)

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Brass Box Iron Recovered from the Wreck of a Mercantile Ship Bound for Philadelphia

From the Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck, Delaware c. 1762 - 1775(State of Delaware)

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Brass Box Iron Recovered from the Wreck of a Mercantile Ship Bound for Philadelphia

From the Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck, Delaware c. 1762 - 1775(State of Delaware)

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An 18th Century Box Iron

18th Century(Neal Hurst Collection)

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An 18th Century Box Iron

18th Century(Neal Hurst Collection)

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An 18th Century Box Iron

18th Century(Neal Hurst Collection)

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An 18th Century Box Iron

18th Century(Neal Hurst Collection)

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A Box Iron Slug or Iron

18th Century(Fort Ticonderoga)

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Box Iron

2nd Half 18th Century(Chris Fox Collection)

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Box Iron

2nd Half 18th Century(Chris Fox Collection)

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Box Iron

2nd Half 18th Century(Chris Fox Collection)

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Box Iron

2nd Half 18th Century(Chris Fox Collection)

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Box Iron

2nd Half 18th Century(Chris Fox Collection)

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Box Iron

18th Century(Private Collection)

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Box Iron

18th Century(Private Collection)

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Box Iron

18th Century(Private Collection)

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Box Iron

18th Century(Private Collection)

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Box Iron & Stand(The First Oval O!ce - Colonial Williamsburg)

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Box Iron Slugs or Irons set upon an open Fire(The First Oval O!ce - Colonial Williamsburg)

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Recreated Tailors Pressing the Valence of a Marquee with Box Irons and a Damp Pressing Cloth(The First Oval O!ce - Colonial Williamsburg)

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Recreated Tailors Pressing the Valence of a Marquee with Box Irons and a Damp Pressing Cloth(The First Oval O!ce - Colonial Williamsburg)

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Recreated Tailors Pressing the Valence of a Marquee with Box Irons and a Damp Pressing Cloth(The First Oval O!ce - Colonial Williamsburg)

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Recreated Tailors Pressing the Valence of a Marquee with Box Irons and a Damp Pressing Cloth(The First Oval O!ce - Colonial Williamsburg)

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Recreated Tailors Pressing the Valence of a Marquee with Box Irons and a Damp Pressing Cloth(The First Oval O!ce - Colonial Williamsburg)

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Measures

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Pewter Tipped Tailors Measure

18th Century(Private Collection)

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A Tailors Shop

(The Old Barracks Museum - Photograph Courtesy David Niescor)

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Continental Silver Tape Measure in a Red Leather Box Marked H.R.B. - VO - 1776Likely German c. 1776

(Christies Auction House)

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Chalk

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Retired German Tailor

1749(Private Collection)

Plate from The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembertc. 1771

(University of Michigan)

From: Dictionary of the English Language

by Samuel Johnson 1768(Research Courtesy William Booth, Draper)

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Shears / Scissors

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Shears / Scissors18th Century

(Private Collection)

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European Shears / Scissorsc. 1750 - 1800(Winterthur)

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Shears / Scissors18th Century

(Ed Welch Antiques, LLC)

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German or Austrian Tailors Shears / Scissorsc. 1600 - 1650

(Denham Garment Library)

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German or Austrian Tailors Shears / Scissorsc. 1600 - 1650

(Denham Garment Library)

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German or Austrian Tailors Shears / Scissorsc. 1650 - 1700

(Denham Garment Library)

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German or Austrian Tailors Shears / Scissorsc. 1650 - 1700

(Denham Garment Library)

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Shears / Scissors

17th - 18th Century(Portable Antiquities Scheme)

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Shears / Scissors18th Century

(Neal Hurst Collection)

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English (She!eld)Tailors Shears / Scissors Stamped GAMBIA

Late 18th Century(Eric and Jenna Schnitzer Collection)

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Shears / Scissors18th Century

(Private Collection)

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Shears / Scissors18th Century

(Pequot Museum)

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English Silver Scissors from Londonc. 1636

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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Brass Thimbles, Pins & Scissors from Nrnberg, Germany, that were Imported to England18th Century

(National Geographic)

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ScissorsFound at the Cross Street Privy Site of Katherine Nanny Naylor of Boston, Massachusetts c. Late 17th Century

(Massachusetts Historical Commission - City of Boston Archeology Program)

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ScissorsFound at the Site of the Three Cranes Tavern, Charlestown, Massachusetts (Burned by the British June 17, 1775)

(Massachusetts Historical Commission - City of Boston Archeology Program)

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Shears & Scissors Recovered from Fort TiconderogaMid 18th Century

(Fort Ticonderoga)

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Sewing Implements from the Ephraim Spraque House Archeology Site in Lebanon, Connecticut18th Century

(State of Connecticut, Funded by the Connecticut State of Transportation)

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English or Dutch Scissors in a Needle Casec. 1680 - 1690

(Victoria & Albert)

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Scissors, Possibly from Woodstock, EnglandFound in an Album of Cut - Paper Work c. 1760 - 1789

(Victoria & Albert)

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French Gold and Steel Scissors from Parisc. 1780 - 1781

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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French Gold and Steel Scissors from Parisc. 1775 - 1780

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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Dutch Scissor Casec. 1650

(Victoria & Albert)

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English Etuic. 1700

(Victoria & Albert)

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ButtonholeChisels

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Take Notice!

While these objects have been known for years in the antique community asButtonhole Chisels, recent research has revealed that many may in fact be

items used to remove the wax seal o"

a sealed document. More research hasto be done on the subject to be definitive.

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Brass & Iron Buttonhole Chisel18th Century

(Jim Bode Antique Tools)

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Brass & Iron Buttonhole Chisel18th Century

(Jim Bode Antique Tools)

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Rosewood & Iron Buttonhole Chisel18th Century

(Jim Bode Antique Tools)

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Buttonhole Chisel18th Century

(Jim Bode Antique Tools)

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Boxwood Buttonhole Chisel18th Century

(Jim Bode Antique Tools)

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Rosewood Buttonhole Chisel18th Century

(Jim Bode Antique Tools)

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Buttonhole Chisel18th Century

(Private Collection)

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Thimbles

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Deep drawn Nrnberg Thimble16th Century

(Private Collection)

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Dutch Thimbles Imported to EnglandLeft - Two Part Construction with Earliest Known Mechanically Produced Indentations Mid 17th Century

Right- Cast Brass Mid to Late 17th Century(UK Detector Finds Database)

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Copper ThimbleFound at the Cross Street Privy Site of Katherine Nanny Naylor of Boston, Massachusetts c. Late 17th Century

(Massachusetts Historical Commission - City of Boston Archeology Program)

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Silver ThimbleFound at the site of Ketsby Manor. MH like Mary Hurd, Daughter of Tennant William Hurd

Makers Mark BGc. 1680 - 1720

(UK Detector Finds Database)

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English Tailors Thimble of Iron18th Century

(More About Thimbles)

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Silver Thimble18th Century

(Private Collection)

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Two Cast and Lathe-turned Brass Thimbles with a Wa#e-Pattern CrownIntroduced to England by Dutchman John Lofting

18th Century

(UK Detector Finds Database)

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Lofting Type Thimble - Holmes Type III18th Century

(Private Collection)

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American Silver Thimbleby John Burt c. 1740

(Historical Society of York, Pennsylvania)

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Thimbles Found at Fort TiconderogaMid 18th Century

(Fort Ticonderoga - Photograph Courtesy William Booth Draper)

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Pewter Thimbles Recovered from the Wreck of a Mercantile Ship Bound for PhiladelphiaFrom the Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck, Delaware c. 1762 - 1775

(State of Delaware)

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Set of Nesting Pewter Thimbles Recovered from the Wreck of a Mercantile Ship Bound for PhiladelphiaFrom the Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck, Delaware c. 1762 - 1775

(State of Delaware)

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Thimble Cases Recovered from the Wreck of a Mercantile Ship Bound for PhiladelphiaFrom the Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck, Delaware c. 1762 - 1775

(State of Delaware)

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Thimble Case Recovered from the Wreck of a Mercantile Ship Bound for PhiladelphiaFrom the Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck, Delaware c. 1762 - 1775

(State of Delaware)

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ThimblesExcavated from a Privy at the Three Cranes Tavern, Charlestown, Massachusetts

Burned by the British on June 17, 1775 c. 1770

(City of Boston Archeology Program)

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Thimble of George WashingtonMid - Late 18th Century

(Mount Vernon)

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Needles & Cases

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Turned Wood Needle Case from the Dauphine1704

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Turned Bone Needle CaseFound at the Cross Street Privy Site of Katherine Nanny Naylor of Boston, Massachusetts

c. Late 17th Century(Massachusetts Historical Commission - City of Boston Archeology Program)

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Bone Needle Case Recovered from the Wreck of a Mercantile Ship Bound for PhiladelphiaFrom the Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck, Delaware c. 1762 - 1775

(State of Delaware)

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Bone Thread Case Recovered from the Wreck of a Mercantile Ship Bound for PhiladelphiaFrom the Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck, Delaware c. 1762 - 1775

(State of Delaware)

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BodkinsFor Drawing a Tape or Ribbon through a Loop or Hem

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English Silver Bodkinc. 1600 - 1699

(Museum of London)

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English Silver Bodkinc. 1620 - 1640

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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English Silver Bodkinc. 1620 - 1640

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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English Silver Bodkinc. 1680

(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)

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English or American Silver Bodkin Marked Sarah Ferniside (A Sarah Fernisde was Baptized in Boston, Massachusetts in 1664)c. 1680

(Peter Cameron)

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English Silver Bodkinc. 1660

(G Cohen UK)

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English Silver Bodkinc. 1670 - 1680

(Victoria & Albert)

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English Copper Alloy Bodkinc. 1600 - 1699

(Museum of London)

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English Copper Alloy Bodkinc. 1600 - 1699

(Museum of London)

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Silver Bodkin Case18th Century

(Age of Elegance Antiques)

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English Enamel Bodkin Casec. 1700 - 1799

(Museum of London)

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English Porcelain with Gold Mounts Bodkin Caseby the Chelsea Porcelain Factory c. 1755 - 1756

(Victoria & Albert)

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English Porcelain with Gold Mounts Bodkin Caseby the Chelsea Porcelain Factory c. 1759 - 1769

(Victoria & Albert)

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English Porcelain with Gold Mounts Bodkin Caseby the Chelsea Porcelain Factory c. 1759 - 1769

(Victoria & Albert)

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English Porcelain with Gold Mounts Bodkin Caseby the Chelsea Porcelain Factory c. 1759 - 1772

(Victoria & Albert)

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English Porcelain with Gold Mounts Bodkin Caseby the Chelsea Porcelain Factory c. 1770

(Victoria & Albert)

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English Porcelain Bodkin Caseby the Chelsea Porcelain Factory c. 1775

(Victoria & Albert)

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Birmingham England Enamel Bodkin Casec. 1770

(Age of Elegance Antiques)

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English Enameled Gold Bodkin Casec. 1780

(Victoria & Albert)

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Sewing AwlsFor Separating Threads to Make Holes

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Dutch or German Steel & Silver Awlc. 1620 - 1650

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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Bobbins

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Bone Thread Case Recovered from the Wreck of a Mercantile Ship Bound for PhiladelphiaFrom the Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck, Delaware c. 1762 - 1775

(State of Delaware)

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Caskets & Cases

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English Silk Casketc. 1650 - 1700

(Winterthur)

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English Silk Casketc. 1650 - 1700

(Winterthur)

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American Slide Box Needle Case & Pincushion18th Century

(Museum of Fine Arts)

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Needle Case & Pincushion Made by Martha Washington at Valley Forgec. 1777 - 1778

(Mount Vernon Ladies Association)

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HousewifesCloth Cases

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American Canvas Work Roll-Up or Housewife / Huswif1763

(Skinner Auction House)

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American Canvas Work Roll-Up or Housewife / Huswif1763

(Skinner Auction House)

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American Canvas Work Roll-Up or Housewife / Huswif1763

(Skinner Auction House)

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American Canvas Work Roll-Up or Housewife / Huswif1763

(Skinner Auction House)

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American Canvas Work Roll-Up or Housewife / Huswif1763

(Skinner Auction House)

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American Canvas Work Roll-Up or Housewife / Huswif1763

(Skinner Auction House)

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American Canvas Work Roll-Up or Housewife / Huswif, Likely from Philadelphia1764

(Skinner Auction House)

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American Linen & Wool Housewife / Huswif from Philadelphia1776

(Winterthur)

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American Wool, Linen, & Silk Needle Case from Ne England2nd Half 18th Century

(Glee Krueger Collection)

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American Wool, Linen, & Silk Needle Case from Ne England2nd Half 18th Century

(Glee Krueger Collection)

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American Wool, Linen, & Silk Needle Case from Ne England2nd Half 18th Century

(Glee Krueger Collection)

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English Needle Work Casec. 1780 - 1800

(Winterthur)

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Silk and Silver Wire Floral Sewing Case / Needle Roll18th Century(Bonhams)

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American Silk & Canvas Needle Case2nd Half 18th Century

(Winterthur)

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American Sewing Case Embroidered with Polychrome Silks in a Rococo Queen Stitch Bound with Green Silk TapeBrocaded Pockets for Holding Sewing Items, 5 Leaf Needle Book of Red Wool

Late 18th Century(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

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American Sewing Case Embroidered with Polychrome Silks in a Rococo Queen Stitch Bound with Green Silk TapeBrocaded Pockets for Holding Sewing Items, 5 Leaf Needle Book of Red Wool

Late 18th Century

(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

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Pins

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Trade Card for Nathaniel Garner, Dublin Pin MakerMid - Late 18th Century

(Private Collection)

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The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life / Pretty Maids Pretty Pins Pretty Womenafter Louis Phillipe Boitard, after Marcellos Laroon II c. 1750

(The British Museum)

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Copper Straight PinFound at the Cross Street Privy Site of Katherine Nanny Naylor of Boston, Massachusetts c. Late 17th Century

(Massachusetts Historical Commission - City of Boston Archeology Program)

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English Straight Pins from Gloucestershire or Londonc. 1620 - 1800

(Victoria & Albert Museum)

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English Straight Pins Found in Jamestowne, Virginia17th Century

(Historic Jamestown)

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Straight Pinsc. 1765 - 1775

(City of Boston Archeology Program)

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Straight Pins of George WashingtonMid to Late 18th Century

(Mount Vernon)

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Pin Cushions

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Copper Alloy Miniature Bucket Possibly Filled with Horsehair and Used in Boston, Massachusetts as a Pin CushionRecovered from the Katherine Nanny Naylor Cross Street Privy Archeology Site

17th Century (Privy In Use From 1660 - 1716)

(Massachusetts Historical Commission - City of Boston Archeology Program)

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English Pin Balls1759

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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English Knitted Silk Pin Ball C. Osboldeston18th Century

(Victoria & Albert Museum)

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European Pin Ballc. 1750 - 1790

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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American Pin Ball2nd Half 18th Century

(Winterthur)

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English Pin Ball from Bath1749

(Winterthur)

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American Pin Ball2nd Half 18th Century

(Winterthur)

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American Pin Ball2nd Half 18th Century

(Winterthur)

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English Pin Ball2nd Half 18th Century

(Winterthur)

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American Silk Pin Ball2nd Half 18th Century

(Victoria & Albert Museum)

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English Pin Cushionc. 1600 - 1630

(Victoria & Albert Museum)

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English Pin Cushionc. 1600 - 1630

(Victoria & Albert Museum)

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English Silk Pin Pillow with Ribbonc. 1745 - 1750

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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Food for the Mind: or, a New Riddle Bookby John Newberry 1778

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Satin Pin Pillow18th Century

(Private Collection)

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Silk Pin Pillow1761

(Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire)

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Pin PillowC P A 1762

(Private Collection)

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Pin PillowC P A 1762

(Private Collection)

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American Pin PillowEmbroidered with Polychrome Silks

18th Century

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Silk Pin CushionWELCOME LITTLE STRANGER 1770

(Winterthur)

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Silk Pin CushionWELCOME LITTLE STRANGER 1770

(Winterthur)

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Recreated Pin Pillow(The Margaret Hunter Shop: Milliners and Matuamakers - Colonial Williamsburg)

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Silk & Linen Pin PillowGOD BLES THE BABE RMM 1777

(Winterthur)

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Silk & Linen Pin PillowGOD BLES THE BABE RMM 1777

(Winterthur)

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English Lafayette Pin Pillow1778

(Victoria & Albert)

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English Layette Pin PillowHealth to the Little Stranger 1784

(Victoria & Albert)

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Silk Pin Pillow1784

(Private Collection)

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English Pincushion2nd Half 18th Century

(Winterthur)

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American Needlework Pincushion from Pennsylvania1778

(Winterthur)

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American Needlework Pincushion from Pennsylvania1778

(Winterthur)

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American Needlework Pincushion from Pennsylvania1778

(Winterthur)

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American Needlework Pincushion from Pennsylvania1778

(Winterthur)

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SewingBoxes

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English Silk Sewing Boxc. 1740 - 1780(Winterthur)

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English Red Leather Sewing / Needle Case18th - Early 19th Century

(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

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Portable Tailor's Box Used for Storing Thread, Needles, Wax &c.From L'Encyclopedie Diderot & D'Alembert Art de LHabillement c. 1751-1772

(Private Collection)

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Detail: Candle Holder of a Portable Tailor's Box Used for Storing Thread, Needles, Wax &c.From L'Encyclopedie Diderot & D'Alembert Art de LHabillement c. 1751-1772

(Private Collection)

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Reproduced Portable Tailor's Box Used for Storing Thread, Needles, Wax &c.From L'Encyclopedie Diderot & D'Alembert Art de LHabillement c. 1751-1772

(Old Salem)

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ThreadSpools

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Wood Thread SpoolFound at the Cross Street Privy of Katherine Nanny Naylor of Boston, Massachusetts c. Late 17th Century

(Massachusetts Historical Commission - City of Boston Archeology Program)

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KnittingSheaths

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Silver Knitting SheathMarked S.S 1740

(Daughters of the American Revolution)

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Pinking Irons

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Pinking Iron18th Century

(Mount Vernon)

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ClothingPatterns

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Polish Tailors Patternc. 1700

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DenisDiderot

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Plate from The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembertc. 1771

(University of Michigan)

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(University of Michigan)

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(University of Michigan)

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(University of Michigan)

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(University of Michigan)

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"This hook and eye...worn on an army cola[k] in the Revolution. Eliakim Libby"From Scarborough, Maine, Libby Served at the Siege of Boston in 1775

(Museum of the American Revolution)

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