SOLD Elizabeth Spurgin's Best and Most Singular Old Lace and Crochet Samples Book I've Ever Seen! made in California I find it quite a

I find it quite a beautiful thing

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

no issues whatsoever

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SOLD Elizabeth Spurgin's Best and Most Singular Old Lace and Crochet Samples Book I've Ever Seen! made in California I find it quite aA 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