Dera Clay and other interested Readers,
it was fine to do anything to a bobbin to make it possible for you to use it, *as long as what you do can be undone*! Therefore, you may re-wire an old bobbin, put new beads in the spangle, even replace missing wire and tinsel... because all of this things can be undone.
That's my philosophy as well. I just adore using my many antique bobbins - both bone and wood. You see - and don't tell anyone this - but I talk to them all the time. I ask them questions and tell them stories. Sometimes I even find myself congratulating them when pairs come back together after not having sen each other for some weeks.
Inevitably I find it is the beads that will come adrift. I have no qualms at all about re-spangling the bobbin and try to put the beads in the same order they were, with a new piece of wire, beading thread or fishing line etc. Then it's straight back to work - I'll even ensure that particular bobbin becomes a worker because of its misdemeanor - LOL
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