Good morning Annette & Jeri
Thank you for the link Annette and I've taken a quick look this morning. I
don't recognise any of the items as having been part of the Spriggs
collection but as I said earlier, I believed Dr Spriggs collection to be on
permanent loan to the School and not belonging to Susan herself. When the
school closed his collection was then moved to Rougemont House Exeter but
I'm not sure if it's still there.
The English Lace School at Rockbeare is where Marie and I first met all
those years ago and have remained friends ever since. I also telephoned
Roger yesterday afternoon but I guess he's probably spending Christmas with
his sons and grandchild, but will try again in a couple of days time. I
used to phone Susan every Sunday morning during her final weeks and she was
always so 'up beat' and incredibly brave. Both she and Roger worked
tirelessly to keep the school going and as Jeri said, it was quite a leap of
faith on their part to open a residential lace school. Students came from
all over the world and there was always such a warm welcome and homely
atmosphere at the school. Ah, happy days!
Fond Regards
Catherine
Catherine Barley Needlelace
www.catherinebarley.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Annette Meldrum" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [lace] Bonham's lace auction 21st January 2014
Hi Catherine and Jeri
Marie Laurie gave me the information re the sale. Marie had a Christmas
Card
from Roger, Susan's husband with the details of the auction in case she
wanted to view it online. Marie spent Christmas with us, so while she was
here, I searched Bonham's under the sale date Roger gave and then
'searched
within' for 'lace'. I came up with 5 pages of lace items: lot numbers are
between 309-355, some of which Marie recognised from her days of classes
at
the School.
I have made a tinyurl to the items I believe are from the Lace School,
part
of Susan's personal Collection.
http://tinyurl.com/lkbce8u
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