August 10, 2013

A Goodbye Lie Favorite - Guess What This Is

We were visiting Fort Clinch here on Amelia Island and talking to one of the female reenactors participating that day.  As you can see in the picture below, they had set up tea and linens and other feminine finery. On item in particular caught my attention. Can you guess what it is?  I thought it was a curling iron.  Wrong. They had to tell me.
 

It is an antique glove stretcher used primarily for outdoor kid leather.   Click here to see more info on the subject. http://www.objectlessons.org/clothes-and-accessories-20th-century-to-present/gloves--stretchers-edwardian-original/s54/a1047/

Thank you to Fort Clinch and the site, Object Lessons.