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<p>[QUOTE="Sandra, post: 329287, member: 3335"]The Joseph Rodgers & Sons company was based in Sheffield, England, which is in line with the royalty indications on your pieces. Queen Elizabeth's coronation was in 1953, so the reference to His Majesty would predate that.</p><p>You have identified the buttonhook and the second item is a sewing tool, called a stiletto or awl, could be used to pull hem threads, but primarily intended to punch out the holes in handmade eyelet or make a new hole in a leather belt, used wherever a neat consistently sized hole was need.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sandra, post: 329287, member: 3335"]The Joseph Rodgers & Sons company was based in Sheffield, England, which is in line with the royalty indications on your pieces. Queen Elizabeth's coronation was in 1953, so the reference to His Majesty would predate that. You have identified the buttonhook and the second item is a sewing tool, called a stiletto or awl, could be used to pull hem threads, but primarily intended to punch out the holes in handmade eyelet or make a new hole in a leather belt, used wherever a neat consistently sized hole was need.[/QUOTE]
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