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Tailors tacker

Sewnoteasy | Posted in Notions & Tools on May 8, 2021 09:39am

Hi all there was an old post on a tailors tacker from Cookie12254 who said she had one. I don’t know how to tag the member in the post but I’ve attached a pic of the post. I’m looking for one of these. Thanks

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