SOLD Elizabeth Spurgin's Best and Most Singular Old Lace and Crochet Samples Book I've Ever Seen! glazed pottery vase 12 1/4" l x 6

12 1/4" l x 6 3/4" w x 5 1/4" t

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I find the combination of lush

All carved from one piece of wood and stained a sort of dark red (making it a perfect valentine

I'd call it a "make do" version of a punch/perforated paper embroidery

SOLD Elizabeth Spurgin's Best and Most Singular Old Lace and Crochet Samples Book I've Ever Seen! glazed pottery vase 12 1/4" l x 6A true treasure, this one a trove of many many treasures, really, and the manifestation of a lifetime's accumulation of lacemaking knowledge by a Ms. Elizabeth Reasoner Spurgin (1842 1927), who handed the book down to her daughter, Estella Eeels, in 1914. The first inside page of the book provides a full, typewritten provenance, right down to the album's loan to Nemaha County Museum in 1990 from Nathan Eells of Ogallala, Nebraska. Photos give a good