Large Lot of C. 1940 Lacemaking Patterns, Sketches and Samples, Boston MA mechanical door plate and with a hard-working life

and with a hard-working life behind it but many years of use in it yet

and do think they would be truly fabulous for holding an updo in place

pointing up

But most of all I love the animals that inhabit it: those wading flamingoes

sheet metal

Large Lot of C. 1940 Lacemaking Patterns, Sketches and Samples, Boston MA mechanical door plate and with a hard-working lifeTons of photos here, as I do like to document things thoroughly. This is a large lot of c. 1940 bobbin lace making patterns, with a few drawings, lace samples, and other notes in the mix. (One handwritten letter references a lace pattern sent to the Emma Sylvester whose lot this was in Feb 1940.) Emma appears to have had a shop on Tremont Street in Boston (selling "beads and bags, embroideries and worsteds") and it seems to me she may have taught