[lace] Selling on Ebay
I have a few lace items on Ebay, start with 130328047995, in case anyone is interested. Thanks, Laurie - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] lace (pins) in fiction
Likely this is already in the collection--the book has been out for a few years--but I've only just gotten around to reading it and now that I've recovered, dried my eyes, and picked myself up off the floor beside the sofa, I just had to share: What's the most expensive pin ever made commercially, Stanley? said Moist quickly. It was like pulling a lever. Stanley's expression went from agonized grief to scholarly cogitation in an instant. Commercially? Leaving aside those special pins made for exhibitions and trade shows, including the Great Pin of 1899, then probably it is the No. 3 Broad-headed 'Chicken' Extra Longs made for the lace-making market by the noted pinner Josiah Doldrum, I would say. They were hand-drawn and had his trademark silver head with a microscopic engraving of a cockerel. It's believed that fewer than a hundred were made before his death, sir. According to Hubert Spider's Pin Catalogue, examples can fetch between fifty and sixty-five dollars, depending on condition. A No. 3 Broad-headed Extra Long would grace any true pinhead's collection. -- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett Su, recovering from her unexpected overdose of endorphins Williamsburg, VA - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
Re: [lace] lace (pins) in fiction
T. Pratchett is genius ;) In one of the Discworld books, there is a fleeting reference to lacemaking - I think it is a departmental description for one of the Deans at Unseen University. There might be other such sightings :) On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Su Carter sucar...@cox.net wrote: Commercially? Leaving aside those special pins made for exhibitions and trade shows, including the Great Pin of 1899, then probably it is the No. 3 Broad-headed 'Chicken' Extra Longs made for the lace-making market by the noted pinner Josiah Doldrum, I would say. They were hand-drawn and had his trademark silver head with a microscopic engraving of a cockerel. It's believed that fewer than a hundred were made before his death, sir. According to Hubert Spider's Pin Catalogue, examples can fetch between fifty and sixty-five dollars, depending on condition. A No. 3 Broad-headed Extra Long would grace any true pinhead's collection. -- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
[lace] Re: lace (pins) in fiction
On Aug 30, 2009, at 22:12, Su Carter wrote: A No. 3 Broad-headed Extra Long would grace any true pinhead's collection. -- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett Su, recovering from her unexpected overdose of endorphins To help you recover in a hurry... You owe me for a keyboard (and Mac ones don't come cheap) -- wine all over the place. I only gurgled through most of the quotation (including the image of a microscopic cockerel on a pin's head) but the true pinhead's collection was just too much... Especially in conjunction with a similarly double-edged and textile-related term, used (though not by Pratchett, so far as I know) in reference to annoyingly stupid people: a pinprick. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
