Hi All, I was idly googling the other day and came across a really interesting article. Mme. Sara Hadley who had a shop in NYC offered a $100.00 reward for the return of some lost laces. The package was taken to an Express company to go to the cleaning establishment in Hoboken, New Jersey and it disappeared. The package included a valuable lace dress belonging to Mrs. J.F. Minis of Savannah, Georgia . The dress had lace on it that been inherited by her grandmother.
It went on to say that on New Year's Day 1907 someone broke into her store and stole $2,000.00 worth of lace!! At Mme. Hadley's store (the New York Times uses the Mme. title for her!) she sold imported laces and also laces made there. She takes credit for creating Royal Battenberg lace and taught many lace techniques and sold patterns, etc. She also was the lace expert who classified, described and catalogued the lace of Leone Ricci, Esq. of FLorence as shown in the illustrated catalogue of 16th and 17th century laces to be sold at the Anderson Galleries in 1915. I can't imagine anyone stealing lace in this day and age (except when pieces disappear at shows sometimes). All the thieves would only imagine the $1.00/yard stuff at Wal-mart. I do hope she got the lace back! Jane in Vermont, USA with many inches of new snow covered with an inch or so of ice! jvik...@sover.net - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
