Are you able to identify the brand name or maker of any of these beautiful needles?   Here’s what I know :

In the photo above, the left-hand needles with the “tulip”-shaped stoppers are English Imperial sizing, which means they were probably made before the 1970’s.  They also have the grey coated aluminium shafts introduced by Abel Morrall in the early 1930’s.  The square-stoppered needles in the centre of the top photo have the same Imperial sizing (higher the number, finer the diameter of the needle) and aluminium shaft.

In the top photo, I believe the second and third pairs from the left (with metal shafts and red wood / green plastic stoppers) were made in Australia.  I have never seen them available for sale outside of Australia.  But I have no idea what firm made them.

Below, the swirled colour through the shaft (as seen in the two left-hand pair of needles) was first produced after celluloid stopped being used for knitting needles, so maybe the 1930’s.  I don’t know the age or maker of these needles.  The far-right pair of needles below, with the inch-rule down the first third of the shaft, are made of celluloid, one of the earliest synthetic materials used for knitting needles.   Several other firms have produced needles with a ruler down the shaft – most well known are the Hero Measure Knit brand – but these in the photo are very early and the only celluloid with measures that I know of.  The round flattened stopper is similar to other celluloid needles of the 1900-1920 period like Fleisher, Bucilla, and Berkalin, but I have no evidence as to the maker of these.

US needle makers standardised about the 1920-1930’s on the crown-shaped stopper crimped onto the shaft – similar to the yellow-shafted pair third from the right below.  But the translucent yellow shaft is very early plastic and I don’t know who would have made these.

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