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Historic Costume | Fine and Decorative Arts

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Leatherworking Tool Kit

Object/Artifact

Simple, saddle tan pigskin sewing kit with bright steel lock. Scallop-edged lid lined with dark green moire with loops to hold tools. Inside lined with red moire print paper. Front drops down to reveal a mirror and a shallow unlined drawer. Inside contains steel netting needle with cotton thread, steel ‘hairpin’ shaped loop, 2 steel eyelet punches, 3 steel pinking tools, 3 leather or sacking needles of different sizes, smoothing rock, double steel crochet hook, broken black plastic crochet hook, double plastic stiletto, wood stiletto, broken bone knitting needle, altered wood netting shuttle, 2 wood splints, fragments of steel chain from a purse, small package of large iridescent yellow glass beads.

G2001.097

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Leatherwork

leather work

kit

tools

Southern Tier

New York

United States of America

North America

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