have just started to read another book and I have found some illustrations of the bobbins. They are not really good enough for me to speculate further than to say that one is a South Bucks with the neck and head missing(?) but the design is just the tiniest bit suspect. At first I was going to say it was not a bobbin at at all, then I tried to imagine a head and neck on it and that made me feel a bit better.
The other two are slim Bedfordshire bobbins. One with circular inscribed rings halfway down the shaft (which is not typical of any particular known maker) also I suspect that the tail is missing as well as the neck and head. The second is a slim gracefull inwards curved shaft, which could be any maker, again with the neck and head missing. I have hopes to possibly identify this ones maker. It is all very well trying to identify by pictures, sometimes you can do it reasonably easily, but without head,neck and tails, most ot the maker specific detail is not there. I really hope I get to see them some time in the future. There are also illustrated some thimbles,which look quite nice; one of them in particular. The pins, very rusted, so presumably not brass. I would think that in the early 1800s they would all have been using brass pins??? Certainly the head in the middle of the pin points to the removeable head being pushed down the shaft. I am not at hoome to look at my reference books. (house sitting at our sons place) Can someone remind me re dates of brass pins and general use in lace making, please? Thanks Most interesting diversion to ponder on a "cold" windy day 18C!! It was 32 C yesterday when we arrived and i was planning to start swimming every day!! Not today thank you. I like to swim when the water temperature is say 23C :) [Just making you cold climate folks envious] Bye for now Brian in Copacabana.. Australia (yes, thats true) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
