What are antique hair receivers and how to re-purpose them

www.cityfarmhouseantiques.com In this week's find of the week I share with you a collection of antique hair receivers and talk about what they were used for and how they can be re-purposed.

[@RebeccaWells-pd4vt]

I have a collection of hair receivers. I have a wooden one from my great grandmother, one that has birds on it, and one that has a spring metal cover over the hole. They are neat!

[@elisabethellis8851]

I use mine for keeping rubber hair bands. They're easy to pull out the hole in the top and the lids are usually heavy enough to keep you from having to pull out a whole bunch

[@cityfarmhouseantiques9917]

Great tip!

[@heatherbernier9814]

Love the repurposing ideas! I have one but it doesn't have any identifying information on it. Do you know how would I go about dating it?

[@dj586858]

Wow! So interesting!

[@cityfarmhouseantiques9917]

You are so welcome..I love learning about the history.

[@kimnelson2512]

Thank you so interesting ☺

[@Teewriter]

I bought one today because I want to make a hair rat. I already made one without a hair receiver, formed it into a sausage, roll the back of my hair up in a french roll.

[@snnetteachexnayder63]

I have one I think but I really don’t know much about it and was wondering if I could ask you about the initial that is in the one I have the initial is EDD

[@cityfarmhouseantiques9917]

The initial is possibly from the person that painted it, if it looks to be hand painted.

[@fonceetambourineaisha9108]

Interesting.....