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| Ebay Treasures Arrived Today! |
With all that wool I am dyeing, and then getting a drum carder, you know it was only a matter of time 'til the spinning wheels came to live with us! There is not a nail or screw any where in these hand crafted dears. See the wooden pegs below, left? And those 'stripes' on the legs are not paint-that is inlaid wood! And the hand-turned threads that screw one piece onto another...
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CNORTHRUP gave us a clue. Online I found Charles Northrup did many things well, and one of them was making spinning wheels, mid-1800's perhaps!
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| OLDER than the Northrup we think, but we don't know yet how old...Rick thinks perhaps Colonial! |
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Pieces and parts of two very old and abused spinning wheels. We love them!
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| My very own 'Mad Spinster'! |
