Anna
Very useful comment.
Lorelei
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Subject: Re: [lace] RE: Carbon dating of lace
I should add a few a
I should add a few amendments to this.
There are lots of factors that can cause measurements in dating with an
error margin of upto 100 years and sometimes even more, these factors
can include the fact that the lace could have been made from old thread,
ie some one made lace with a thread they
Anna
Thanks!
Lorelei
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Subject: Re: [lace] RE: Carbon dating of lace
The most reliable carbon dating is
Someone on Facebook just mentioned Marian Powys. I didn't think I knew
anything about her, so checked on google. She has an item on the
professor's site 'A Further Legacy Three Personal Lace Notebooks of Marian
Powys' https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/articles/nb85_lc2.pdf
She sho
Mea culpa, I forgot to trim the message before I sent my reply moments ago.
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The most reliable carbon dating is up to about 15,000 years. That is
about 3 half lives (carbon 14 half life is 5,740 years with an error of
30 years). So for lace it should be reasonably accurate.
Laurie why did anyone want to carbon date lace. I'm assuming it is
needle lace or sprang. Bobbin
What a wonderful story and such a beautiful dress. (And a very beautiful couple)
Cearbhael
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> On Feb 12, 2017, at 5:29 AM, Jane wrote:
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> For those that might have missed it - its not exactly headline news - here is
> a story for you to enjoy . or breathe a sigh of rel
I had heard that. Her parents went and did the verification of the dress.
Hopefully it will arrive with them today.
Sue in e yorks
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> On 13 Feb 2017, at 15:04, Sue Harvey wrote:
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> Don't know if you have heard but the dress has been found in the shop
> crumpled up in a co
Fellow spiders,
So how about this? My reading indicates that there is a part of Saxony that is
in Bohemia. I spent a fair amount of time following this lead on Bohemia until
the penny dropped and I looked it up in our own incomparable data base. Darned
if I didnât get this piece
http://www.metmus
Don't know if you have heard but the dress has been found in the shop crumpled
up in a corner.
Sue Harvey
Norfolk UK
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This story was on Australian TV too.
Shirley in Corio Oz.
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The sequestrators are only supposed to take assets of the company that went
bankrupt, i.e. the items that belonged to the company. Any items in the shop
that were there to be dry cleaned weren't assets of the company as they
belonged to the people who had taken them there to be dry cleaned.
But I
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