Jane,
I shall arrange to get a photo of this handky within the week
hopefully. It is very fine work and I didn't have my magnifiers with
me, but the edge was quite definitely the Bedfordshire 9 pin edge. It
did have tallies in groups of 4 but was worked in a very fine cotton
not silk. Just can't recall details of the trails right now.
If it is Bedfordshire, not Maltese or Cluny, then the earliest date
is likely to be 1852, as its development from Bucks came from
inspiration from these laces at the Great Exhibition at Crystal
Palace in 1851,
Hmmm, well if as I suspect this hankdy came out on the ship with
friend Jill's forebears, then it's most likely in the mid 1850s as
that was when the huge numbers came here for gold. Might have to do
her family tree for her :)
David in Ballarat, AUS
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