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Silkworm breeding spinning mill thermometer

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CHICCA unobtainable.. ancient thermometer used for breeding silkworms, from an old Belgian spinning mill, in Reamur units (used before Celsius) as you can see it is handmade - very early 1900s - and it indicates the birth temperature (naissance) of the silkworms; it is 29 cm long, in wood and glass, it was hung in the room dedicated to the "nursery" before the rooms with all the old machines. A piece of history, not working but decorative, among other things also history of our places, of our great-grandmothers, who went to the spinning mill as children, with their little fingers to unravel the thread from the cocoon.