Lovely and Unusual Set of Antique Wooden Ribbon Spools with Hand Printed Paper Labels mini chair 23 3/4" long x 15

23 3/4" long x 15 1/2" wide x 5/8" thickest

and which arrive to us now like gifts from the past

the more of everything I find in this face

Turning the handle here rotates one of two colorful round glass slides

I found these three together and have to think they have been together for a long time

Lovely and Unusual Set of Antique Wooden Ribbon Spools with Hand Printed Paper Labels mini chair 23 3/4" long x 15These I know came of the estate of a historic general store in Maine, and I just think they are the loveliest things, dating I'd guess to the late 19th century. They are were wooden spools for ribbon of various lengths and widths that ribbon long gone now but for one spool still wound in white satin ribbon. What makes them so lovely and special feeling through are the hand cut, hand printed paper labels adhered to each side, bearing lion and eagle and