help me identify this please!

[Shakeyfly]

Hello everyone,
I recently was the recipient of a pretty impressive gift. I was attending a seminar on fishing in Maine, when an extremely kinds woman asked if I tied flies. After a brief discussion of it, she handed me a box after the show of different fly tying materials and feathers and fur from the 60's - 70's. There were several wooden bobbins with different floss thread, and wool. But then I came across this thing and I have no idea what it is. Any information would be appreciated.


I will post pictures of the materials as well if you would like to see some of em!

[Shakeyfly]

a couple of more pictures

[Ed Piggott]

Shakeyfly:

I am a new tier too,but, the device with what looks like a dial resembles a micrometer
that I have. I use mine to measure the diameter of wire in thousands of an inch.
Hope I helped.

Ed epiggott@aol.com Chino Valley, AZ

[kglissmeyer]

Looks like an old bobbin to me.

[troutgeek]

Looks like an old bobbin to me.

Yep -- it's an older bobbin. I was given a plastic version of this a couple years ago.

[white43]

Didn't Herter's used to sell those things back in the 1950s or so? JGW

[scum.glove]

Yep, definately and old bobbin. My father has a black one from Herter's.

[Shakeyfly]

Awesome thank you guys!! That would explain the thread still in in. I will have to figure it out.

I am pretty excited about it. All the things inside of it are just awesome. And some of the yarns are just sweet.

[Eight Thumbs]

Didn't Herter's used to sell those things back in the 1950s or so? JGW

I've got a couple of the plastic Herter's bobbins from the 1950's and that doesn't look like them. It's possible that Shakey's might be an even older Herter's model. The black plastic Herter's bobbin sits the spool vertically in the plastic cone not horizontally like the metal model that Shakeyfly is asking about. It is, however, definitely a bobbin. 8T

Shakey, just out of curiousity is there a name stamped anywhere on the bobbin?

[Greg H]

Looking at the labels for much of the thread and chenille/wool, I suggest you give these guys a call and see if the bobbin came from them.

Universal Vise Corporation
16 Union Ave, #1,
Westfield, MA,
Telephone: (413) 568-0964