SOLD Elizabeth Spurgin's Best and Most Singular Old Lace and Crochet Samples Book I've Ever Seen! made in California including loads of wonderful antique

including loads of wonderful antique primitives

no issues whatsoever

I find it quite a beautiful thing

I am completely obsessed with this art pottery bowl

and for what I at least perceive as its resonance with his work

SOLD Elizabeth Spurgin's Best and Most Singular Old Lace and Crochet Samples Book I've Ever Seen! made in California including loads of wonderful antiqueA 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