it looks like shoe stretchers

THE ITEMS YOU HAVE ARE "SHOE STRETCHERS"!
THEY GO INSIDE YOUR SHOE TO KEEP IT'S SHAPE.
MY GRANDMOTHER ALWAYS KEPT THEM IN HER SHOES!!!

I don't know what they were doing in the sewing cabinet, but those are shoe trees! Probably have some just like them stuck in a pair of dress shoes someplace!!

They are shoe trees. You put them into your shoes when you have taken them off, to keep them in shape.
Lynette

These also keep the shape of your shoes like new. Mymother had these in every pair of her good shoes. I wish I still had hers.

Being sewing related I would say they were used for darning socks etc. I got hubby to come and have a look. His opinion is that they were the wieghts used in weaving on a loom.

shoe stretchers

Those are shoe horns, sometimes called shoe trees. Put the big end in the toe of the shoe and the little end at the heel and it keeps the shoes in a nice shape. Shoes are much more casual now so really not no necessary. This dates me!

That sewing cabinet looks like a Martha Washington sewing cabinet

old style shoe stretchers?