Large Lot of C. 1940 Lacemaking Patterns, Sketches and Samples, Boston MA mechanical door plate as pure a form as

as pure a form as can be

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

Bottom two about 7 1/4" l x3 7/8" t

Clearly tons of love was put into this

Large Lot of C. 1940 Lacemaking Patterns, Sketches and Samples, Boston MA mechanical door plate as pure a form asTons 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