This gray cardboard box contains tailor's chalk packed in sawdust to keep it dry. It has a print on the lid and side in black of a bald man in a bowtie with a measuring tape around his neck and a tab of chalk in his hand. It reads in black " 'Jems'/ Tailors' Chalk/ 'Unexcelled in Quality'/ For complete satisfaction use aa Tailors' Crayons showing the 'Old Tailor'." Inside are a few pieces of white , black and terra cotta colored tabs of chalk.

This light brown wooden box has a paper label applied to the top with a print of a young blond woman in a blue dress with a lace collar and pink flowers in her hair. A white label inside the lid is printed in blue with a calendar for the year 1894. The bottom label reads in black "Brook's Glace/ For the Willcox & Gibbs' Machine/ Brook's Soft Finish/ For All Other Machines." Opens on a hinge and latches with a metal clasp.

This dark brown stained wooden box has a paper label applied to the top with a scene of a cottage with a gate in a snowy landscape. A white label inside the lid is printed in blue with a calendar for the year 1894. The bottom label reads in black "Brook's Glace/ For the Willcox & Gibbs' Machine/ Brook's Soft Finish/ For All Other Machines." Opens on a hinge and latches with a metal clasp.

This dark ivory colored paper-covered wooden box has multi-colored floral decoration with gold trim. A label inside the lid has a black and white lithographic drawing of a factory and the words "Brook's Sewing Cottons/ Meltham Mills". The bottom label reads in blue "Brook's Glace/ Spool Cotton/ For Automatic/ and / Single Thread Machines/ Brook's Soft Finish/ For All Other Machines/ and/ Hand Sewing".

This plain wood thread holder has 8 prongs for holding spools separated by a central faded red cloth covered bar-shaped pincushion and a large tapering post for holding a thimble. 7 spools of thread fill the holder: green, blue and taupe spools unmarked; peach colored marked "Star Twist/ will boil"; silver marked "Rice's Sewing Silk"; dark red marked "Sew-Well"; and tomato red marked "Star Twist". The bottom of the holder is stamped in black "C. Tollner, Pat'd June 1st, 1880."

This round wood cansiter is a thread holder and dispenser with 6 prongs for holding spools. The lid has a print of the ruins of a stone house marked "Alloway Kirk" and the canister base a print of a cottage marked "Burn's Cottage". The box reads "Clark's/ O.N.T./ Spool Cotton/ George A. Clark/ Sole Agent/ Made of Wood/ Grown/ On The Banks/ Of The Doon." Six holes fitted with white celluloid grommets are evenly arranged around the base for neatly dispensing the six different colored threads that would be held inside.

This cardboard box is covered in black textured paper on the sides and has a pink top label with a black and gold border that reads in black "D.C. Spencer's/ Empire Sewing/ Machine Twist", around a company crest with two female figures flanking a shield topped by a globe and an eagle above a banner marked "Excelsior".

A key shaped keyring and pocket knife. Made of metal covered with faux mother-of -pearl plastic with an attached chain for key and and small blade that folds out from the top. It is engraved and highlighted in red "Heights Restaurant/ 110 Montague St. Bklyn".

A dark cherry stained wooden handled clothes brush with black natural bristles. The top is printed in gold with a photo-lithographic image of a man with a handlebar mustache and the words "Compliments of / John Moje/ Cumberland Hotel/ N.E. Cor 24th St. And 3rd Ave., New York".

A dark camel colored mitt-style shoe polishing cloth printed in black with a fancy initial "M" below a crown and the words "Shoe Cleaner/ St. Moritz/ On The Park/ 50 Central Park South/ New York City".