http://tinyurl.com/4m5cw2f Fine 1890-1900s ORNATE Handmade Lace Collar SILK LUSH
Starting price: $64.00
Auction ends: Mar 27, 2011 19:14:52 PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller gb-best, Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains Pennsylvania, United States
Comments: Good silk Irish Crochet doesn’t come up that often. The challenges of working with this thread gives this lace a rather distinctive appearance. This is a nice piece, well worked. Seller mentions a few broken threads, but they aren’t immediately obvious.

Sold for $84.99, 4 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/46dm4cv ANTIQUE LACE-FINE 18THC ALENCON LACE
Starting price: $75.00
Auction ends: Mar 28, 2011 10:47:55 PDT
Offered by: Maria Niforos, Ebay seller mithya, London-New York, United States
Comments: Nice Alençon or Argentan border, late 18th c or early 19th c. An example of ‘Herren Alençon’, meant to be ruffled and good for gentlemen’s cuffs. Can’t tell if the brides are twisted or buttonholed.  Piece is a little short, but condition looks good; a very typical example.

Sold for $210.49, 5 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/4bveblx CIRCA 1860, ORNATE BRUSSELS POINT DE GAZE LACE FAN
Starting price: $495.00
Auction ends: Mar 28, 2011 10:58:53 PDT
Offered by: Maria Niforos, Ebay seller mithya, London-New York, United States
Comments: Too bad about the sticks – this is a very nice piece of Belgian needlelace. Nice flat design, some good fillings. Can’t tell if the lace is damaged around the broken guardstick.

Sold for $495.00, 1 bidder.

http://tinyurl.com/4jqw9ek BOULLE DE DENTELLIERE.HAUTE LOIRE.XIX eme
Starting price: 3.00 EUR
Auction ends: Mar 28, 2011 13:32:48 PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller rapatord, la roche blanche, Auvergne, France
Comments: French lacemaker’s lamp. Seller says that it is 19th century because the glass is thicker than 18th century examples. French focusing lamps from the Haute Loire region are different from English ones – the French examples sit on the round base with the filling ‘neck’ at the top. The glass sometimes is supported by a turned wood or metal stand – these rarely survive. English examples normally have a lower projection that fits into a holder, and can be filled either from the top or bottom (tube is plugged with a cork for the bottom fill case).
This example one looks in very good condition.

Sold for 87.50 EUR, 9 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/4ffdxqj DELFT BLUE & WHITE FIGURINE DENTELLIERE BRUGES 2391 a/f
Starting price: 4.99 GBP
Auction ends: Mar 29, 2011 07:34:51 PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller lorrart, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Comments: Delft lacemaker, 6″ high.  Note the word ‘Bruges’ on the front of the pillow. Has condition issues, broken bobbin and chair, some chips on the base. But these don’t come up that often.

Sold for 21.51 GBP, 4 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/4gvpko4 19thC SUPERB HM CHANTILLY LACE VEIL
Starting price: $525.00 for bids, $585.00 Buy-it-Now
Auction ends: Mar 29, 2011 17:07:52 PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller snakey03rr, Leeds, Bourbon, Missouri, United States
Comments: An impressive looking large square Chantilly shawl. Wish there were a photo of the whole thing, I’m a bit confused about the right and left side edges toward the top of the photo.  Expected seam separation is present, some of which is repaired with a simple overcast stitch. A few other holes. A similar Chantilly square shawl was sold on Ebay in May 2009, similar price range.  Origin of these pieces is unknown. The actual work has large areas of half stitch, appropriate to the scale.  No ombre shading.

Did not sell.

http://tinyurl.com/49unnv4 Antique Bobbin Lace Collar HONITON & Lappet FANCY LUSH
Starting price: $185.00
Auction ends: Mar 31, 2011 11:17:23 PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller gb-best, Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains Pennsylvania, United States
Comments: This is, of course, not Honiton, but the rarer and very elegant Valenciennes de Gand. A beautiful piece, looks in excellent condition. Val de Gand is actually a pieced lace – many of the motifs were made at the same time and combined into various patterns joined by an unusual square bobbin mesh with only 3 threads on each plait. This helped reduce the manufacturing time.

Sold for $410.00, 3 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/4hgcvwc Grandes collections de dentelles Charles Schmid 1906
Starting price: 49.00 EUR
Auction ends: Apr 02, 2011 07:19:06 PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller mariop2583, Paris, France
Comments: This work, produced in 1906 as an exhibition catalog, was published by Charles Schmid, Librairie Générale de l’Architecture et des Arts Décoratifs.  Not to be confused with A. Calavas, Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, also from Paris, who was a great publisher of similar works. It is one of a number of large portfolios of lace photographs (in excess of 20 different works) produced around this time. I’ll have to do a LaceNews post on these in the near future. Plates are browned, but reasonable. Looks like two of them are duplicates, which isn’t good. But this is quite a rare work.

Sold for 75.99 EUR, 2 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/4uzpydy TURKISH ANTIQUE NEEDLE LACE OYA – LACE FLOWERS
Starting price: $18.00
Auction ends: ~27 days
Offered by: Ebay seller sunnymailbox, Istanbul, Turkey
Comments: I put this up mainly because this seller is the place to go for everything you want to make Turkish Oya knotted needlelace.  Take a look.

Still available.