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What a nice cabinet!!! Lucky you!!
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I'd say shoe stretchers. I have some that I use on wet shoes, it keeps them from cracking and curling. I put oil or grease of some kind on them and let them dry.
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Love the cabinet and the shoe stretchers!
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Originally Posted by gsbuffalo
I was given a sewing cabinet yesterday with all the items in it and came across these and have no idea what they are or what they are used for. haven't seen anything like them before and everything in the cabinet was sewing related so just wandering if I have a new tool to use or what. thats for any help.
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They look like inserts for leather shoes - so that they keep their shape if they have become soaked.
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Originally Posted by Borntohandquilt
They look like shoe trees! My mother used them very often when her shoes were wet....
The cabnet is beautiful!!! Enjoy your gift! :mrgreen: :thumbup: :XD: |
I have the identical cabinet!!!!!! Found it years ago at a garage sale -- I have never seen one identical before. I think the objects are shoe trees.
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Here is a bit of disappearing history. My Mother was married in 1925. Her Grandmother gave her a highly prized sewing cabinet like that for a wedding gift. I have it in my home now. All of their clothes were handmade at the turn of the century. My great-grandmother even rented a room in Chicago to a seamstress in exchange for left over materials. The seamstress would come to the house in Holland, MI and stay to make clothes for the whole family. Mother always remarked "we girls" in the 1950's had more clothes than they did! I used laces and satins and bindings stored in that cabinet to make doll clothes sewing by hand when I was about 9 yrs old. PS When Gone with the Wind was first published it was a very thick book my Mother hid it in one of the side compartments from us eager readers...not deemed proper reading for us!
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I have the same sewing cabinet and I love it. The other items I believe are shoe trees.
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Shoe trees definitely.
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