On May 20, 2009, at 18:36, [email protected] (Carrie) wrote:
I did not inherit them; they were purchased in the 90's, many from an
Australian bobbin maker who retired (and I can't for the life of me
remember his name), and some from someone in England who did fancy
bone bobbins.
Another post hit home, in terms of where their "value" lies... I have
a bobbin handpainted with an image of Eleanore of Aquitaine.
Perhaps you could post good photos of the fancier ones to the Arachne
Webshots? I don't know how to do that, but others will. And then,
people here would be likely to be able to attribute the bobbins and
evaluate them. I've moved away from Midlands and from fancy stuff but
I seem to remember a series -- a bobbin-of-the-month club, maybe? --
which had various English queens painted on. Someone is likely to
recognise the image once they see it.
But, in general... I started making lace in '89, so it's the same time
frame. At the time, even the fancy, hand turned, hand engraved and
painted, bone, spangled, what-have-you... were most unlikely to have
cost more than $10 per bobbin. $15 for something really, truly,
spectacular (along the lines of mother and babe, in bone and with
embedded wires). I had some really nice ones -- including bone -- and
none were more than $5, because I thought it was outrageously high
already (my pocket snake hissed and hissed). And, although you'd have
to pay more for the same bobbins today, today's price of (new) bobbins
isn't what you'd go by. Since your bobbins aren't antiques (100yrs old
or more), they're just *used*; you'd need to have *way* more than a
1000 of them to be worth $10K. So don't let your "almost ex" get away
with that scam. Can't blame him for trying to pull it, but...
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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