On Oct 25, 2005, at 22:14, Jenny Brandis wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ANTIQUE-HAND-MADE-BLACK-NEEDLE-LACE-COLLAR-
Needlework_W0QQitemZ7359253709QQcategoryZ2219QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
or Item number: 7359253709 []
I tried to read the scanned notes and think the second says
This collar came from Patrick
dont know who it belonged to
(suppose it is real lace)
Nov-15-35 H?ui L. Bru?e
Am I reading this right???
Couldn't read that note even as far as you had - stopped at "this
collar comes from" - English handwriting "rules" are quite different
than Polish ones. And I have some doubts of it being hand-made, even if
it is over a 100 yrs old (say, 1900?). By then, machine churned-out
Chantilly was at its peak-perfection, and it's impossible to say which
is which, unless you have your nose right down to the piece. And,
sometimes, not even then... Two - almost identical - pieces were
paraded for our delectation in Nottingham (Arachne '98 event). One was
hand made, and the other was not. Those who identified them correctly
got a big grin from the curator as a "brownie point" :)
However... at $10, or even at $25, it's a steal, even if it's
machine-made. Unless there are torn bits somewhere, which had not been
"documented". Which does not seem to be an E-Bay practice; if anything,
the lace sellers bend over backwards on the issue of visible faults.
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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