I wear a pocket in that style (with my own design of embroidery) with my 1640s outfit, because I like them and it doesn't show, but I, too, understood that they were really 18th century. I thought I had read that 17th century ones were plain.
> Message: 4 Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 15:40:46 -0500 From: "otsisto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [h-cost] Italian Ren gowns and purses/pouches To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I remember reading that it was early 1600s but I am not 100% sure of the year 20. It was list in either Elizabethan or Jacobean. De -----Original Message----- At 00:02 06/05/2008, you wrote: >I think it was from the Museum of London site. The pocket I believe said >that it was listed at about 1620. There are very few pockets from pre1600s. >Presently I can not find the site. The embroidery seems very 18th century to me - are you sure it was 1620? I have looked at a large number of pockets, and pictures of, for a small project I am working on, and have never seen one dated that early. Some of the MoL items are not always dated accurately, or with a very wide range of dates, as I have found while working there, as a volunteer. Suzi >De > ***************************************** Kate Bunting Cataloguing & Data Quality Librarian University of Derby _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
