For auction is a nice collection of vintage sewing threads some in their original packaging some partly used some still unopened .Also some nice original bias binding packs and tailor's chalk.  This is a great little bundle, with lots of interesting bits and pieces, for people who use vintage threads in their textile work or just like sewing collectables 

 I will describe each of the 5 items as best I can.

1) Box in dark red carboard measuring 29 cm x 11.5. and 5 cm deep. Decorative  lid reads J & P Coats Mercerised Crochet and there is also the original tissue paper with a print of the factory, although this has been torn into two.. Coats is a well known Scottish manufacturer with its origins origination in Paisley in 1825, becoming J&P Coats Ltd in 1896 and which remains the worlds leading industrial thread manufacturer. This box does not have all its original contents, There are 4 I think untouched white 20 gramme balls of  the mercerised crochet and then 3 x 25 g. balls of ''Dolls Designs '' 3 ply pure new wool also in white.

2) Box measuring 21.4 x 16 cm, 5 cm deep, gold coloured paper top, worn but reasonable condition. I had  thought this was a box for cottons but on closer inspection, inside lid is written  'T B Carlin Ltd Cigar manufacturer to the late king George VI.' So this is a actually 1950s cigar box which someone has repurposed for their sewing threads.
Inside are 4 compartments One contains a roll of what calls itself '9 Cord No 24 Velocity'. Another contains 12 partly used silks made up of 6  rolls of Nicholson and Hall (1930) Ltd silk in various shades; 1 roll made by 'Alderman': 2 x Gutterman Germany; 3 where I cannot see the maker's name. The third compartment contains the remnants of 3 reels of some sort of elastic  with instructions inside each explaining that it is Ripple-Lastic yarn for shirring at home. The last contains the remnants of 4 rolls of some more elastic thread one of which also has its (mysterious to this  modern eye) instructions inside.

3) Box labelled Fil d'or no 323 Mercerised cotton 240 yards 2 ends 2 ply Made in England. This appears to be a silk for mending ladders in solk stockings and  inside are 7 nice untouched rolls of Fil D'Or hose mending silk in various shades.

 4) Wrapped unopened packet of Italian thread marked 100 yards Lucido. I do not want to open the original packaging myself so I ma not sure how many rolls there are inside.

 5)  Wrapped unopened packet of Collingbourne Mills of Elgin mercerised cotton, 1 end 2 ply 300yards. It is described as a 'Big Value' Darning and Mending  Kit ' and contains 10 small rolls again in slightly different shades. It looks as though these might also be for mending silk stockings.

In addition a misc bundle of 3 1940s (?) bias bindings, some Pikaby iron on name tapes, an unused but torn along some of the perforations card of La Rigoletta  poppers/press studs and a small box containing 3 bits of very old tailor's chalk in what I assume to be its original box.

So an interesting selection for the sewing enthusiast of vintage cottons and silks  etc some in its original branded advertising packing .


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