Jeri & Arachnoids, You made an interesting comment about too few antique laces still being in the public domain. I have a significant collection of 18th C Binche/Val and Mechlin, even a few pieces yards long and in pristine condition. My collection also includes perhaps a hundred or so other pieces of bobbin and needle lace, a dozen of those museum quality and the rest ranging from interesting study specimens to a handful of junk (collected early on in ignorance). I feel rather guilty about having so many good pieces. especially of one particular and rather rare type.
My question is what do I do in my Will about this collection? I don't want it sold for the pieces just to get buried in someone (else's) private collection, but I'm concerned about a museum selling or even discarding the study pieces, even some of the early 18th C pieces simply because there are so many in my collection. Obviously a museum of some sort is probably the appropriate place for the really good pieces, and perhaps a lace group(s) of some sort would take the study pieces. When considering museums, I'd like the pieces to go back to Belgium, except they aren't taking their own collections seriously anymore. What do you (both Jeri and the rest of the list) recommend? What have those of you who are collectors done in your Wills, and do you have plans to dispose of some things before death--if so, how? If you agree with putting the better pieces in a museum, what museum do you recommend? Is there any way to keep a study collection (not spectacular specimens but examples that show something of a type of lace or type of construction etc.) "in the public domain."? I'd be interested in any and all comments, recommendations, suggestions, etc. Thanks, Nancy Connecticut, USA On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 3:58 PM, <jeria...@aol.com> wrote: > ... > Let us consider antique laces. Too few are still in the public domain.... > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
