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Unusual Floss names.

Hi Gang

Estate Sale find for 5 bucks! Curse or blessing?????

Find was a carton with three boxes inside. Box 1 was ornate clear plastic (yellowed) with 81 DMC skeins. Appear to be newer and OK. Box 2 was vinyl plastic (gray) with 65 Anchor skeins. Also appear to be newer and OK.

But Box 3 (cardboard shoebox) contained a miss mash of skeins of floss I have never heard of before, with the exception of older style Anchor skeins. These are old, probably dry rotted, and the labels wraps are fairly brittle. Venus Cotton, 47 skeins. Venus Polyester, 11 skeins. Venus Rayon, 2 skeins. Linen Thread Co., NY, 9 skeins. Coats Cadena (Anchor logo), 34 skeins. Coats Corrente (Anchor logo), 21 skeins. Coats Clark LDA. (Companhia de Linha Coats Clark LDA, is what came up on a web search), 5 skeins.

The shoebox alone might be worth more than what was inside, it held Red Goose Shoes, hi hi.....

The Anchor and DMC flosses look fairly recent, none had the older style labels. But this 3rd box was really something to see.

TTUL Gary

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Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr.
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Oh how neat! What a great find!

Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak

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Jeanine3

Hi Jeanine

That was a neat website to weave through even though I couldn't read a lick of the text.

FWIW: Both of the Coats Cxxxx brands of floss do have the familiar (or should I say older) Anchor logo on them.

I didn't have much to do last night so I began matching up the flosses to the DMC numbers so I might use up most of it.

What I thought would probably be dry rotted I couldn't break as easily as brand new DMC so it appears I will be able to use it.

A lot of colors I can probably only use for basting and gridding as they don't line up with either DMC or Anchor colors.

And I have no idea what to do with that polyester floss, it sticks to my fingers like my fingers were made of wheat beards hi hi.....

TTUL Gary

Jean>Coats Corrente is what they sell in Italy as an alternative to DMC. I

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Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr.

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