Vintage purse sized figural sewing kit is a cute little girl? with a tall red thimble hat. Inside holds 3 tiny spools of thread all connected and a needle. The girl has only one eye. Don't know if she's supposed to be winking or if one eye has worn away with years of use. That, and the thimble hat, which is almost as tall as she is, gives her a very whimsical look. The threads of the screw on hat only grab for a small area at the end of the wind. Sometimes it stays and sometimes it doesn't. You need to let the tail end of the thread stick out of the thimble so the threads will grab and keep the hat on. That's how it was when I got it... and that's probably why. If she's going to stand on a shelf with a collection, it won't matter, but you might not want her to rattle around in your purse. In good condition otherwise.

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Wonderful vintage lady head pin cushion has 4 plain 1940's vintage hat pins stuck in her cushion. There are only a handful of old pin marks plus these 4 old hat pins (2 shanks are rusting) possibly indicating that, being so pretty, she may have been used on the vanity or dressing table for hat pins instead of for straight pins and sewing. I'm not quite sure what her head is made of... could be paper mache with a chalk coating, or chalk, or a painted bisque ceramic. The base is some type of stuffed cloth with drawstring tie at top. Her face is hand painted with a sideways glancing expression. She has blonde, old doll wig type, hair glued to her head. The surface of her face has reacted to something, maybe moisture, over the years and there are lots of little raised dots on her face, especially the right side, as can be seen in the photos. She's in good condition otherwise and is a neat old piece to display with sewing or vanity collections. 7.75" high x approximate 4.5" diameter at base.

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Wonderful old figural pin cushion takes the form of a lady's fancy shoe. Was this the Edwardian era when they wore such exaggerated pointed shoes, powdered wigs, low cut necklines, etc? It's made of carved and painted wood. Cushion area is sturdy with a heavy muslin cloth but not much left of the silky brown covering material. Braided twisted cording around the cushion. Three pearls in front. 3 holes down the each side front indicate buckles, fasteners, or ties that are now missing. Paint is crackling off. Wear on heel edge. It's still a great looking and unusual piece for your vintage sewing (or shoe) collection. Originally purchased at an estate sale. I've had it in my collection for about 25 years. 4" long x 3" high.

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Here is a large lot of vintage sewing items... I'll try to itemize most of them:

• Sewing basket, round, woven, with flowers in color on lid
• 21 balls/spools of darning cotton, 16 are un-opened, 5 have a small amount used... black, white, 2 navy blue
• Pin cushion w tape measure in the shape of an iron
• Darning egg
• Bobbins: 6 for sewing machine: 3 metal 3 plastic
• Scissors
• Safety pins, box of
• Needles, box of, plus a few buttons
• Thimbles 2 plastic advertising Tastycake
• Pins - assorted straight pins in neat old box marked: Prym's Steel Pins Sonomor Dress Makers Pins
• Bobbins: 3 for lace making (I think), 1 black wood, 2 bone or ivory
• Shuttle: for tatting (I think) 1930's marbled plastic
• 5 metal tools - I don't know what they're for. They look like minature potato skewers
• 1940's Needle Case "100 Gold Eyes Needles"
• Needle Case advertising for Baltimore Life Insurance
• Army Navy Needle Case has 4 papers of needles but bac of case is missing
• Other partial packs of pins
• Eldorado snaps on neat card
• Assorted cards with snaps, hooks, eyes
• 2 measures: 1 flexible tape, 1 6" advertising ruler
• 2 seam rippers
• Pattern tracing wheel
• Rug latching tool
• Screwdriver for sewing machine
• 5 packages bra straps
• 2 packages bra strap guards
• Mending yard
• Assorted partially used packages of seam binding, bias tape, lace binding, 3 never openened
• Ribbon
• Elastic
• Mending patches

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Here are 2 vintage sewing items:

• Wiss pinking shears made in Newark, N.J. with several patent numbers, the most recent is from 1934 (1970408). In good condition.
• Pattern tracing wheel with marbled butterscotch bakelite handle. Light oxidation on metal shank but basically in good usable condition with a yummy looking handle.

Purchased from an estate sale.

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