On Sep 11, 11:22*am, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
"YarnWright" wrote in message

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Mary Fisher spun a FINE 'yarn':

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+"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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++Can you identify this, please?
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++http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=eaqis8&s=4
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++Mary
+Forgot to say, it's just over 8" long, 1" wide and 1/2" thick.
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+TIA
+Mary

Mary Fisher. . .

Until you added this dimensions I would've said it looked like a tatting
shuttle......
N.

Yebbut there's nothing - no spool - on which to wind the yarn.

The person who's asked about it has now said that it was bought at a yard
sale and they were told it was a shuttle - they didn't know!

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It must be a kind of sword ,, or the stick one uses ,, when weving to
separate threads ,,,
mirjam