http://tinyurl.com/pa67gz4 Antique Regency Brussels applique lace droschel veil – Pat Earnshaw collection
Size: 15″ x 31″
Starting Price: 25.00 GBP with reserve
Auction ends: March 15, 2015 12:09 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller derbeatle, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Comments: An early 19th c hat veil of Brussels bobbinlace applique on droschel ground. The ground is made in strips (seller cites 0.75″ wide), joined together to make large pieces. In my opinion the linen thread that was hand-spun for this type of lace is among the finest ever made, and I’ve made measurements under a microscope. It feels and drapes wonderfully.  This piece has a typical wider lower border, narrow edge around three sides, and small esprits in the ground.  The tape with holes at the top is meant to string a gathering thread through. This same pattern arrangement is seen in contemporary blonde-de-Caen shawls.
Provenance:  ex. coll. Pat Earnshaw.
Modifications:  None.
Damage: The mesh is worn and frayed with pinholes. Some of the motifs are coming loose, a few ground sprigs are missing.
Soilage: Looks clean.
Finish: No obvious folds or creases.  I think this piece may have suffered from inappropriate washing sometime in the remote past.

   Sold for 112.00 GBP, 4 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/nh3ycwu Collection 5 antique Victorian mourning lace black hat veils millinery – Maltese
Size: 3 discussed are ~30 cm x 70 cm
Starting Price: 42.00 GBP
Auction ends: March 15, 2015 12:30 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller linskapet, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway DG6 4UU, United Kingdom
Comments: Two veils are machine-made, but it’s the other three that I’m discussing here. I’m glad these three hat veils are together in the same collection and that the first one has the border scallops and crosses typical of Maltese lace. Without those characteristics (see the other two) it can be difficult to identify this kind of lace, which often has a fine, almost thready appearance. They often end up in my ‘undetermined guipure’ category. They all appear to have been made in horizontal strips joined together with a separated edge border, another typical Maltese technique.
Provenance:  From a collection of family lace.
Modifications:  None, although I can’t see the ends in the photos.
Damage: General wear with some frayed and broken threads.
Soilage: Looks clean, but hard to tell with black lace.
Finish: You can see in the photos that they have been folded, but I don’t see any creases in the heavy silk thread.  Edges are often wrinkled.

         Sold for 42.00 GBP, 1 bidder.

http://tinyurl.com/oq5cjma Antique Regency Brussels droschel lace skirt length – Pat Earnshaw collection
Size: 44″ x 82″
Starting Price: 85.00 GBP with reserve
Auction ends: March 15, 2015 12:30 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller derbeatle, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Comments: A high-end market piece of bobbinlace applique on droschel ground, a length for a skirt is possible. Note the rather large area of woven fillings in the lower flowers, making me think this might be an English piece.  But the overall feel of the design is more European. The design does have a symmetry around a lower central point, and the technique is excellent. Note the pomegranate motif used as esprits.  Quite an impressive piece.
Provenance:  ex. coll. Pat Earnshaw.
Modifications:  Cut along top edge on the right side. The sides appear to have been cut and bound with a tape, some of which is coming loose.
Damage: Occasional pinhole in the mesh, some repairs.
Soilage: Looks clean, but this kind of lace often has light brown stains. There are some color variations in the larger photos that might indicate this, but nothing really obvious. Might just be a trick of the light.
Finish: A little wrinkled.

          Sold for 336.99 GBP, 3 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/k9sjq4c Long edging of antique Victoria handmade Irish Carrickmacross lace
Size: 12 cm x 280 cm
Starting Price: 140.00 GBP
Auction ends: March 15, 2015 1:00 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller linskapet, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway DG6 4UU, United Kingdom
Comments: A Carrickmacross guipure border.  Typical chain foot edge, and note the looped picots along the lower border. Straight picots used on the brides. Interesting, fairly complex needle-made fillings in the flowers. Undulating floral design, well made.
Provenance:  From a collection of family lace.
Modifications:  There’s one photo of a portion of the ends, and they look like the original cutwork ended there, unfinished.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos.
Soilage: Looks clean.
Finish: Vertical fold creases and a little wrinkled.

   No bids.

http://tinyurl.com/qdn9kah French Antique Bobbin Lace Mechlin
Size: 1-7/8″ x 23-7/16″
Starting Price: $9.90
Auction ends: March 15, 2015 1:40 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller seizan21, Kamakura, Japan
Comments: A mid 18th c Louis XV design Flemish Mechlin lace with fond de glace or ijsgrond. Typical wave design with quatrefoil motifs. This type of pattern was sometimes doubled along the long edge to form wider piece, but here it is used as an edging.
Provenance:  None cited.
Modifications:  Cut both ends, engrelure added.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos.
Soilage: A few faint brown spots which the seller illustrates nicely on a light background.
Finish: No obvious creases or wrinkles.

   Sold for $28.00, 2 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/ptk43t8 Stunning Large Antique Wedding Handkerchief – English Honiton Hand Bobbin Lace
Size: 15″ square
Starting Price: 49.00 GBP Buy-it-Now
Auction ends: March 15, 2015 1:40 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller cloudberry123, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Comments: A Honiton guipure handkerchief with 8-pointed star central cloth. Snails/slugs style with woven picoted roughly square mesh brides. Good technique with the English Flower Garden feel, although in the Devon area it’s sometimes called a ‘hedge row’ effect. Nice presence to the piece.
Provenance:  None cited.
Modifications:  None.
Damage: A few broken and frayed threads, minor.
Soilage: Seller cites a few small age dots.
Finish: No obvious creases or wrinkles.

   No bids.

http://tinyurl.com/n7eukuq ANTIQUE LACE EXQUISITE DUCHESSE BRUGES LACE FAN LEAF ORIG COND 8″ WIDE
Size: lace is 8″ deep, 24″ across laid flat.
Starting Price: $269.99 Buy-it-Now
Auction ends: March 16, 2015 7:15 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller kuchcollectiblesandvintagelinens, Ronkonkoma, New York, United States
Comments: A Duchesse de Bruges flan leaf. Dense, romantic floral design with irregular plaited picoted brides. No raised work, just typical rolled and lifted edges. Well done technique.
Provenance:  None cited.
Modifications:  None.
Damage: One broken bride.
Soilage: Seller cites light age darkening.
Finish: Vertical fold creases, but never mounted.

   No bids.

http://tinyurl.com/lnofv9r DENTELLE ANCIENNE en soie de MALTE, ANTIQUE LACE, MALTESE LACE square
Size: 35.4″ square
Starting Price: 28.00 EUR
Auction ends: March 16, 2015 12:35 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller bethsalie, Paris, Île-de-France, France
Comments: A square white silk Maltese cover or small shawl. Looks like about 8 layers – Maltese crosses around the outside, 3 rows of round mats of woven leaves, the an elaborate 8-pointed star in the center. There’s a little puzzling contouring around the star intruding into the nearest round mat layer.
Provenance:  None cited.
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos.
Soilage: Looks clean.
Finish: No obvious creases or wrinkles. Although it looks a little shrunken, perhaps from a past wash?

   Sold for 28.00 EUR, 1 bidder.

http://tinyurl.com/pqyu48o DENTELLE ANCIENNE, tulle brodé main, ANTIQUE HANDMADE TAMBOUR LACE FLOUNCE
Size: 35.3 feet x 35.4″
Starting Price: 60.00 EUR
Auction ends: March 16, 2015 12:49 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller bethsalie, Paris, Île-de-France, France
Comments: A wide, long embroidered machine net with a romantic 2nd Empire design.  Small sprigs and circles used as esprits in the upper ground. I think it’s tambour with two different weights of thread. Quite an impressive piece, probably Belgian. The wheat ear motif might indicate a wedding piece.
Provenance:  None cited.
Modifications:  I can see one end that looks cut, not sure about the other end.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos.  Tulle looks in good shape.
Soilage: Looks clean.
Finish: Some light fold creases.

   Sold for 379.00 EUR, 10 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/lox4sct (671) ANTIQUE Irish CARRICKMACROSS GUIPURE Lace Cuff or Priests Gown c 1850’s
Size: 4.25″ x 34″, circular, no seam.
Starting Price: $1,495.00 Buy-it-Now or Make Offer
Auction ends: March 16, 2015 2:29 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller antiquejunker, Ronkonkoma, Houston, Texas, United States
Comments: A Carrickmacross guipure border, a little long for a cuff, but possible. Religious iconography in a series of shields is very strong, and unusual. I’m thinking they might represent symbols of various saints. Typical looped picots on the lower border, double straight picots on the brides. Some needle-made fillings, but what I find really interesting is the decorative pulled thread embroidery in the cloth. I don’t recall seeing this in Carrickmacross before.
Provenance: Purchased years ago in Paris.
Modifications:  None.  Appears mounted onto a linen tape along the edge.
Damage: One broken bride.
Soilage: Seller cites white cream color. Some light brown spots.
Finish: No obvious creases or wrinkles.

   No bids.

http://tinyurl.com/lg89e2g 1890 LOVELY HAND CHANTILLY LACE LAPPET OR TIE WITH ROSE MOTIF
Size: 42″ long
Starting Price: $99.00
Auction ends: March 17, 2015 11:30 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller heartnsoul1, Hollis, New Hampshire, United States
Comments: A Chantilly lappet scarf with rose motif. N honeycomb fillings, which is a little unusual. Interesting fairly complex design for a small piece, excellent technique.
Provenance: None cited.
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos aside from a rare loose thread along the border.
Soilage: Looks clean, but hard to tell with black lace.
Finish: No obvious creases or wrinkles, although no photo of the midpoint.

   No bids.

http://tinyurl.com/kjdnke9 Beautiful antique/vintage Honiton lace wedding veil
Size: 78″ x 68″
Starting Price: 85.00 GBP with reserve
Auction ends: March 17, 2015 12:54 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller derbeatle, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Comments: A rectangular veil of Honiton applique on machine net. Floral scalloped border all around with larger flower sprays in the corners just inside the outer border. and Smaller sprigs used as esprits in the main ground. Snails/slugs style with woven tally leadworks used as fillings.  Soft, supple tulle.
Provenance: None cited.
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos. Might be a pinhole or two, but overall the tulle looks in good condition.
Soilage: Seller cites ‘soft old white colour’.
Finish: Some light wrinkling.

      137.00 GBP, 3 bidders, reserve not met.

http://tinyurl.com/k8x7676 SLOVAK FOLK COSTUME ethnic embroidered bonnet handmade bobbin lace peasant KROJ
http://tinyurl.com/l6lyavs Slovak Folk Costume embroidered bonnet + handmade bobbin lace trim Castkov KROJ
Size: first: lace length 19″ across front. Second, 18″ lace length.
Starting Price: $64.99 on both.
Auction ends: March 17, 2015 5:08 PM PDT on both.
Offered by: Ebay seller slavart, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Comments: Two bonnets, the first from the western Slovakia village of Drahovce, the second from the village of Castkov in Northwestern Slovakia (Zahorie region).  The lace is a point ground ‘lille-like’ pattern, probably stiffened. Drooping pear-shaped design on the first, florals on the second.  6 pointed star ‘fond chant’ fillings with some ‘mayflower’ like spots. Perhaps Tønder?  Embroidery on the first is a cutwork with needle-made fillings. Embroidery on the second is cross stitch, with an embroidered machine net cap back.
Very interesting documented peices.
Provenance: first: Western Slovakia, village of Drahovce. second: Northwestern Zahorie region, village of Castkov, Slovakia.
Modifications:  1st one: cotton band between the embroideries is a replacement.  Needs new tie string at back.  2nd one:
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos.
Soilage: Age darkening on the first. Second looks clean.
Finish: Seller says that on the first bonnet the lace was removed, hand-washed and re-stitched by a woman in the village.  Second bonnet has some light creasing, minor.

   No bids.
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http://tinyurl.com/p49u4mo Antique/vintage Brussels Duchesse lace and Point de Gaze lace cuffs
Size: 9.5″ x 3.8″
Starting Price: 20.00 GBP
Auction ends: March 18, 2015 11:41 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller derbeatle, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Comments: Two Brussels Duchesse cuffs with raised petal roses in the Point de Gaze inserts  Conventional bobbin motifs, dense design with irregular plaited brides.
Provenance: None cited.
Modifications:  None.
Damage: A few broken and frayed brides. One pinhole in the ptdG mesh, a little detached from the bobbin lace on one edge.
Soilage: Seller cites ‘soft old white colour’.
Finish: A little edge folding.

   Sold for 41.00 GBP, 4 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/khusxda Antique Vintage Handmade Bobbin Lace Piece Ribbon – Honiton Lace Rose Floral E
Size: 4 cm x 184 cm
Starting Price: 45.00 GBP
Auction ends: March 19, 2015 2:06 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller hungerbreak, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
Comments: A narrow Honiton guipure border.  Nicely designed flowers and leaves with square mesh picoted brides. Well advanced in style, good technique.
Provenance: None cited.
Modifications:  I’m fairly certain one end is cut, can’t make out the other end from the photos.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos.
Soilage: Looks clean, even against the light background color.
Finish: Some soft creases.

   No bids.

http://tinyurl.com/p5wvnbn ANTIQUE BRUSSELS BOBBIN LACE FAN. NEEDLEPOINT INSERTIONS. MOTHER OF PEARL STICKS
Size: 10.75″ long, 20.25″ wide. Lace 5.5″ deep.
Starting Price: 180.00 GBP
Auction ends: March 20, 2015 8:52 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller georginanntiques, London, United Kingdom
Comments: It looks like a Point d’Angleterre fan with Mother of Pearl sticks. This type of lace is a fine pieced bobbinlace with Point de Gaze needle-made mesh, often with elaborate decorative ‘mode’ needlelace fillings. Quite a dense, romantic floral pattern. The bands of needlelace are a bit heavy in contrast with the finer bobbin motifs. This is one of the finest Belgian laces, 2nd half of the 19th century and early 20th c.
Provenance: None cited.
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos, although you can’t blow up the photos so a bit hard to tell.
Soilage: Age darkening along fan ribs. Lace has been glued to ribs in places..  Lace is a ‘rich cream color’.
Finish: Expected fan creases. Lace is a little wrinkled along the outer edge.

   No bids.

http://tinyurl.com/qcgsdxn LARGE ANTIQUE BRUSSELS LACE FAN. POINT DE GAZE INSERTION. MOTHER OF PEARL STICKS
Size: 13″ long, 25″ wide. Lace 8.25″ deep.
Starting Price: 90.00 GBP
Auction ends: March 20, 2015 8:59 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller georginanntiques, London, United Kingdom
Comments: A Duchesse de Bruxelles fan with inlaid Mother of Pearl sticks. Multiple layers of raised petals in the roses in the single Point de Gaze insert. A rather elaborate romantic design in the bobbinlace, a bit more elaborate motifs than usual in Duchesse.
Provenance: None cited.
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos. PtdG mesh looks good.  Some repairs to the sticks. Rivet on the loop missing.
Soilage: Brown staining on the lace where glued to the left guard stick. Seller cites some faint marks on the lace.
Finish: Expected fan creases.

   No bids.

http://tinyurl.com/pnerqv4 ANTIQUE BRUSSELS LACE FALL CAP, SHAWL. POINT DE GAZE AND NEEDLEPOINT INSERTIONS
Size: 58.5″ x 19.5″
Starting Price: 60.00 GBP
Auction ends: March 20, 2015 8:59 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller georginanntiques, London, United Kingdom
Comments: A Duchesse de Bruxelles mantilla with a large Point de Gaze insert in the center, and smaller ones at the ends.  Raised petal roses, good elaborate design in the needlelace. There are also some regions filled with needle-made decorative ‘mode’ stitches. Well done typical Duchesse motifs with some raised work against half-stitch ground. This is an elaborate design for an unusually shaped piece.
Provenance: None cited.
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Small holes and pinholes in the Point de Gaze mesh. Some broken brides and a few repairs.
Soilage: A few small brown marks.
Finish: Several light fold creases.

   Sold for 129.00 GBP, 5 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/ks2azog FINE PRETTY ANTIQUE BOBBIN LACE FAN LEAF. BRUSSELS OR HONITON
Size: 16.5″ wide, 5″ deep.
Starting Price: 25.00 GBP
Auction ends: March 20, 2015 10:16 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller georginanntiques, London, United Kingdom
Comments: Looks like a Point d’Angleterre fan leaf – I think it’s a Point de Gaze ground, but can’t see the photos close enough to be sure. But it has that feel. Probably an early 20th c piece due to the rather naturalistic design. Some good decorative needle-made ‘mode’ fillings in grid form, also some lnes of bobbin-made brides.
Provenance: None cited.
Modifications:  None.
Damage: A few pinholes and small holes in the mesh.
Soilage: Looks clean.
Finish: Some light fold creases.

   Sold for 53.00 GBP, 3 bidders.