SOLD Elizabeth Spurgin's Best and Most Singular Old Lace and Crochet Samples Book I've Ever Seen! cut paper sihouette and looks great on the

and looks great on the counter or shelf

I'd hang this in the mudroom as daily inspiration

The larger piece is a footed plate and the smaller is a shallow bowl

whether it belong to the particular class or not

(With a phallic raised pole at the center of it all

SOLD Elizabeth Spurgin's Best and Most Singular Old Lace and Crochet Samples Book I've Ever Seen! cut paper sihouette and looks great on theA 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