Antique Turned Wooden Yarn Spindles elegant treen box 9 1/4" long x 10"

9 1/4" long x 10" tall x 4" wide

Established in 1861

Kits like this were often produced as advertising give aways--this one is stamped "Fred M

Moxie (flavored with gentian root extract) originated in Lowell

This is a striking pair of Japanese style faceted pottery cups with what I believe is a Yunomi form

Antique Turned Wooden Yarn Spindles elegant treen box 9 1/4" long x 10"I find these old turned and colorfully dyed wooden spindles, used for hand spinning yarn, so lovely that I just couldn't pass them by, and thought they might still be useful for holding yarn, or as tools of some other sort, or just stuck in a vessel to admire! I'd guess the colorful banding, on both ends in most cases, had a correspondence to the yarns they one held, and would guess the color comes from the same dyes used to color the wool. 19th