Dear Nancy and Lorelei, indeed this is a beautiful piece of lace. Thank you for the pictures on our album the first one wasn't clear enough. I know that you, Lorelei have a lot of knowledge about old laces therefore I hesitated to answer. But after all I learned it looks as if it is from 19th century because of the gimp and the thickness of the thread. There exist Flanders laces with thicker thread from earlier time too used for bed- and table-linen not for dresses. The picots and the edge aren't worked properly as the lace was done in a hurry, what could be a sign for 19th century too, but must not. It's only my two cents......
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