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Buttonhole cutter

Description: Hand-made t-shaped steel buttonhole cutter with curved bars at top; file marks are still evident
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Sewing frame

Description: Box containing a wooden sewing frame. The lid of the box has a color picture of three girls, two are seated, in a room with draperies. They wear long dresses and are sewing.
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Thread chest, metal knobs, wooden, 6 drawers

Description: Thread chest, metal knobs, wooden, 6 drawers, turned post decoration 1 on each side of front. Maker's Marks: "Best Six Cord"/Spool Cotton for Hand and Machine/Sewing/J&P Coats/White/ Assorted Colors/Black. Lois Jean Cooper Mayer Collection, Supplement 2.
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Rug hooks

Description: Two wooden rug hooks with metal hardware
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Embroidered sampler

Description: Very delicate sampler stitched on fine linen with embroidered verse, trees, birds, building, floral designs, geometric designs, and "Watnall School"; stretched on wooden frame and nailed with rusty handmade tacks
Date: 1804
Creator: Allcock, Mary
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Commemorative plate

Description: Ceramic commemorative plate from Star of the Republic Museum opening in 1970; white plate with molded rim, gilded decoration, and text
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Commemorative plate

Description: Ceramic commemorative plate from Star of the Republic Museum opening in 1970; white plate with molded rim, gilded decoration, and text
Date: 1970~
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Flax

Description: Twist of unbleached, retted, hatcheled flax
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Dressmakers shears

Description: Very heavy dressmaker's shears with special hinge which protrudes on both sides; marked, "New York"
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Embroidered sampler

Description: Plain weave sampler with silk embroidery, floral border, floral motifs, and poem. Text: "In Sharon's lovely Rose, Immortal beauties/ shine; Its sweet refreshing fragrance shows;/ Its origin divine./ Pleasure is a Rose, near which there ever grows/ the thorn of evil; It is wisdom's work so carefully/ to cull the Rose, as to avoid the thorn, and let its/ rich perfume exhale to heaven in grateful adoration/ of Him who gave the Rose to blow./ Mary Louise Brown, November 2nd 1829."
Date: November 2, 1829
Creator: Brown, Mary Louisa
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Cotton card

Description: Wooden cotton carders; with metal teeth through pad; marked, "The Only Genuine Old Whittemore Patent Improved No. 10 Cotton"; from the old Glenn Crain Home in McGregor, TX
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Shuttle

Description: Boat-shaped wooden weaving bobbins; center bobbin or thread holder is missing; three holes in base, top has notches for thread holder.
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Knitting needles

Description: Wooden knitting needles; undecorated, very smooth, with one end pointed
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Wax

Description: Block of beeswax with worn spot where it was used to wax an object
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Glass with a picture of Senora del Carmen mission]

Description: Commemorative glasses for the Texas Sesquicentennial; (a,b) short (10.2 cm x 8 cm) and inscribed with, "Texas 1836-1986"; (c-f) have pictures of Texas missions (14.2 x 6.8 cm); and (g-k) are clear frosted glasses (16 cm x 7.5 cm)
Date: 1986~
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Glass with a picture of the La Bahia mission]

Description: Commemorative glasses for the Texas Sesquicentennial; (a,b) short (10.2 cm x 8 cm) and inscribed with, "Texas 1836-1986"; (c-f) have pictures of Texas missions (14.2 x 6.8 cm); and (g-k) are clear frosted glasses (16 cm x 7.5 cm)
Date: 1986~
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Winder

Description: Wooden yarn winder holds yarn for warping frame; includes 10 bobbins--2 of which are different from the others--that are wired through the center and held in 2 vertical rows
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Sewing clamp

Description: Wooden sewing clamp with screw base, dovetailed construction, and drawer
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Yellow Quilt Block]

Description: One of 39 cotton quilt squares for making pieced quilt; 4 small blocks makeup each large one, each small block being composed of 2 triangles and one central arrow-shaped piece. This block has solid yellow arrow pieces and triangles in two patterns: green-and-white flowers on a purple background, and green and blue blocks on a pink polka-dot background.
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Light Blue Flowered Quilt Block]

Description: One of 39 cotton quilt squares for making pieced quilt; 4 small blocks makeup each large one, each small block being composed of 2 triangles and one central arrow-shaped piece. This block has solid light-blue arrow pieces and triangles in two flowered patterns: blue flowers with red centers and green leaves on a red-and-cream dot background; and small white, blue, and red flowers on a cream background.
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum
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