http://tinyurl.com/ofucwmq Antique wooden Lace bobbin winder. Base 40cm, wheel 20 cm dia.
Size: base 40 cm, wheel 20 cm diameter
Starting Price: 146.00 GBP Buy-it-Now or Make Offer
Auction ends: Sunday, July 12, 2015 5:17 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller studiocull, Torrington, United Kingdom
Comments: An English windmill bobbin winder with a solid wood base.  Sometimes the base has a drawer, but not here. Usually the English winders have a cup-like holder for the bobbin which seems to be missing in on this piece. Seller also notes that the windmill doesn’t fit well on the arm peg, but that could be adjusted.
Provenance: None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  Looks like the bobbin holder is missing.
Damage: A few cracks in the base, some expected signs of wear.
Soilage: Looks clean.
Finish:  Normal wear patina.

    Unsold.

http://tinyurl.com/nve5nkd ANTIQUE LACE PRETTY HANDMADE MECHLIN LACE EDGING C 1850 DOLL BEAR BABY CLOTHES
Size: 2″ without engrelure x 50″
Starting Price: $12.50
Auction ends: Sunday, July 12, 2015 8:10 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller greatlace, Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Comments: A narrow border of Mechlin, early 19th c style.Straight lower edge, simple flowers with small leaf sprigs used as esprits. Typical lace meant to be ruffled.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  Cut and secured both ends, engrelure added.
Damage: A few pulls and minor pinholes in the mesh.
Soilage: Occasional brown spotting.
Finish:  No obvious wrinkles or creases.

   No bids.

http://tinyurl.com/njb6onn ANTIQUE LACE FABULOUS WIDE PIECE OF HANDMADE VERY FINE MECHLIN LACE UNUSED
Size: 4.75″ without engrelure x 57.5″
Starting Price: $150.00
Auction ends: Sunday, July 12, 2015 8:49 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller greatlace, Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Comments: A border of Mechlin, probably 2nd half of the 19th century, perhaps 20th. Elaborate romantic floral design, very precisely made. An impressive piece.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  Cut both ends, engrelure added.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos.
Soilage: Cream color, one stain at bottom 5″ from one end.
Finish:  No obvious wrinkles or creases. Looks unused.

   No bids.

http://tinyurl.com/q553r7o Antique Victorian Maltese lace shawl shoulder cape mantilla
Size: 58 cm long at back, 43 cm long at front.
Starting Price: 120.00 GBP
Auction ends: Sunday, July 12, 2015 9:35 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller linskapet, Kirkcudbright, Dumfires & Galloway DG6 3UU, United Kingdom
Comments: A short cape or ‘pelerine’ of black silk Le Puy guipure. For a fairly traditional design, I think this is an impressive piece. Note the elaborate double plaited picoted cross ground, along with other ground variations. Typical motifs on half-stitch ground are impressively worked. Just wish there was a photo of the whole thing laid flat.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos.
Soilage: Looks clean but hard to tell with black lace.
Finish:  No obvious wrinkles or creases.

      No bids.

http://tinyurl.com/oxqwtrn A Stunning Victorian Brussels Lace Bertha Collar
Size: 140 cm x 15 cm
Starting Price: 52.00 GBP
Auction ends: Sunday, July 12, 2015 10:25 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller winterwonderlandfairy, london, United Kingdom
Comments: A long collar of Duchesse de Bruges. This is a high-end market piece with some innovative motifs (tulips?), all done in excellent technique. Note the unusual back neckline, no sign of an engrelure. But I believe it is original. Good raised work on half-stitch ground in the strapwork, and the leafwork is impressive.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos.
Soilage: Looks clean.
Finish:  Vertical fold crease along centerline.

   Sold for 166.00 GBP, 6 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/na3cmn4 Fine antique/vintage Bedfordshire lace cotton lawn handkerchief
Size: 12″ square
Starting Price: 12.00 GBP
Auction ends: Sunday, July 12, 2015 11:55 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller derbeatle, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Comments: A Beds handkerchief “famous Rose and Leaf design”, illustrated in Bucks Cottage Worker’s Agency catalogs (Harry Armstrong).  The pattern comes up for sale occasionally, I have several examples in my collection.  All are slightly different depending on how the lacemaker chooses to work the raised tallies in the motifs.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos.
Soilage: Pale ivory color, small brown mark on the center cloth.
Finish:  Horizontal and vertical fold creases. Slight wrinkling at the edges, minor.

   Sold for 43.00 GBP, 7 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/qcrzn6h Fine antique/vintage Tenerife/sol lace handkerchief
http://tinyurl.com/pkuynbj Fine antique/vintage Tenerife/sol lace handkerchief edge/mat
Size: 13.7″ square on both.
Starting Price: 12.00 GBP
Auction ends: Sunday, July 12, 2015 12:03 PM PDT
Sunday, July 12, 2015 12:38 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller derbeatle, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Comments: Two handkerchiefs of Ñanduti, although the second one does not have the typical palm leaf motifs. And I think the center of the second one might be a later addition. Both have typical large sol motifs, 5 different ones n the first, 2 in the second. Smaller motifs are used for joining, with a complex ground in the first one.  Both are good example, although the first is more typical of Ñanduti.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  Unsure about the centers of both, the cloth is not well joined in the first piece, and the center is just a bit odd in the second. I don’t know if that was part of the original piece.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos.
Soilage: Pale ivory color on both, with some small pale brown brown marks.
Finish:  Slight wrinkling, minor.

  
Sold for 26.00 GBP, 4 bidders.
Sold for 49.00 GBP, 4 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/omzuez3 DENTELLE ANCIENNE XVIIe, Argentan, ANTIQUE LACE XVIIIhc, Argentan lace
Size: 3.1″ x 88.6″
Starting Price: 65.00 GBP
Auction ends: Sunday, July 12, 2015 12:18 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller bethsalie, paris, Île-de-France, France
Comments: A border of late 18th c Herren Alençon. Réseau fin along the edge, I can’t tell if it’s brides tortillée or brides bouclé above. I’m guessing buttonholed, but the photos aren’t close enough to tell. Small trefoil leaves used as esprits, and the lower border has circles with two types of fillings. Minimal decorative ‘mode’ fillings.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  One join. Cut both ends, engrelure added.
Damage: A few ;minor pulls in the ground, some small holes along the lower border, minor. Occasional small hole close to the engrelure.
Soilage: Some localized brown spotting.
Finish:  No obvious creases or winkles.

   Sold for 143.00 EUR, 4 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/om3p6e3 A BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN HAND MADE MILANESE LACE WEDDING SKIRT & BODICE – Unfinished
Size: skirt – 33″ waist, 99″ around bottom, 39″ long.
jacket – 16″ shoulder to hem, 17″ wide underarms, 12″ long sleeves.
Starting Price: 120.00 GBP
Auction ends: Sunday, July 12, 2015 12:22 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller garden*hill, Reading, United Kingdom
Comments: A jacket and skirt of probably Italian origin. Milanese in style, but probably an early 20thc piece. Some kind of Eastern European origin is not out of the question. Interesting ‘flower pot’ motif in the skirt panels, and note the filling stitches, and occasional decoration of the tape with holes. I’m not particularly bothered by the lack of fitting, I think the piece is designed to fit loosely, and would be worn over some colored under-dress. This is a very interesting set.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos.
Soilage: Looks clean.
Finish:  A few fold creases.

      Sold for 355.00 GBP, 6 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/qxqu735 Fragment antique/vintage linen Reticella lace border poss. 17th c.
Size: 4.2″ x 34″
jacket – 16″ shoulder to hem, 17″ wide underarms, 12″ long sleeves.
Starting Price: 20.00 GBP
Auction ends: Sunday, July 12, 2015 12:32 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller derbeatle, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Comments: An insertion and scalloped edge border of Genoese bobbinlace. It looks like an early 17th c piece, especially with the compact woven leaves.  The top insertion is based on reticella design, while the bottom is another typical Genoese motif with a ‘fan-like’ border. You do have to be extremely careful on age attributions with a piece like this, but the photos look good. Especially the double plaited line running vertically which divides the motifs – you see similar things in contemporary Punto in Aria needlelace.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  Cut both ends.
Damage: Some loose threads along the top. Seller cites several broken brides.
Soilage: Seller cites mid ivory color with pale brown age marks.
Finish:  No obvious creases or winkles.

   Sold for 37.00 GBP, 3 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/pgshmot A 1.45 METRE UNUSED FLOUNCE OF VICTORIAN BRUSSELS DUCHESSE LACE – 11 1/2″ Deep
Size: 11.5″plus .5″ engrelure x 57.5″
jacket – 16″ shoulder to hem, 17″ wide underarms, 12″ long sleeves.
Starting Price: 20.00 GBP
Auction ends: Sunday, July 12, 2015 12:32 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller garden*hill, Reading, United Kingdom
Comments: A fairly deep border of Duchesse (cotton).  Note the termination both sides -unusual to see a formal completion on this kind of lace. I’m not sure if it is original. Seller thinks the lace might have been used as a veil, although the design is a little dense for such an application. Motifs are well designed in a dense floral pattern. Note the decorative ‘mode’ fillings in flower centers – although no formal Point de Gaze inserts which would push this toward the Brussels Duchesse style.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  Both ends finished – not certain if this is original.
Damage: One break in the engrelure, lace looks intact.
Soilage: Creamy color.
Finish:  No obvious creases or winkles.

   Sold for 185.00 GBP, 6 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/q7gepjm A 2.1 METRE LENGTH OF UNSUED VICTORIAN BRUSSELS POINT DE GAZE LACE WITH ROSES
http://tinyurl.com/orpj7cf A 1.2 METRE LENGTH OF UNSUED VICTORIAN BRUSSELS POINT DE GAZE LACE WITH ROSES
Size: 3.5″ deep lace, 3/8″ engrelure, x 2.15 meters
3.5″ deep lace, 3/8″ engrelure, x 1.2 meters.
Starting Price: 80.00 GBP, 40.00 GBP
Auction ends: Sunday, July 12, 2015 12:38 PM PDT
Sunday, July 12, 2015 12:43 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller garden*hill, Reading, United Kingdom
Comments: Two sections of the same Point de Gaze border, with double raised petal roses of naturalistic form. Raised rings in flower centers, and decorative ‘mode’ fillings in the strapwork, all of the same type.  Note the unusual triangular fillings just above the strapwork.
Provenance:  Came with a note stating the two pieces together cost 20.00 GBP, seller thinks in the 1920’s.
Condition:
Modifications:  Both cut on both ends, although the cuts look along original join lines. Engrelure added.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos.
Soilage: Isolated brown spot on the 2nd piece.
Finish:  A some light fold creases.

  
Sold for 195.00 GBP, 11 bidders.
Sold for 87.00 GBP, 11 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/qew6txm ANTIQUE LACE HANDMADE CHANTILLY LAPPETS / TIE
Size: 1.5″ to 3.25″ x 47″
Starting Price: $32.50 Buy-it-Now
Auction ends: Sunday, July 13, 2015 2:56 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller greatlace, Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Comments: A Chantilly lappet scarf. Simple design, well executed.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Some pinholes in the mesh around the back.
Soilage: Looks clean, but hard to tell with black lace.
Finish: No obvious creases or wrinkles.

   Buy-it-Now exercised.

http://tinyurl.com/navtyt6 ANTIQUE IRISH CARRICKMACROSS APPLIQUE LACE COLLAR & CUFFS Circa 1912
Size: collar: neckline 31.5″, width 6″ to 1″.  Cuffs: lace-5.25″ x 2″
Starting Price: $9.99
Auction ends: Sunday, July 13, 2015 6:00 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller sewandso1, Sarasota, Florida, United States
Comments: A collar and two cuffs of Carrickmacross applique. A little guipure work in the collar along the outer edge with picoted bride fillings, some meeting in raised circles. Interesting rectangular bar fillings further up.  Also includes ring esprits and some good needlerun fillings.  The cuffs share a 5-petal flower with raised center with the collar, but the match between the two is a little off. I’m wondering if these might also be some kind of pieced collar rather than cuffs.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  None.  Tape sewn to the tops of the ‘cuffs’.
Damage: Some pinholes in the tulle.
Soilage: Ivory color, two small age discoloration marks.
Finish: Soft fold creases in the collar.

   Sold for $32.00, 3 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/nuo7dxx Antique Handkerchief / Hankie Needle Lace on Net Square Bordr Lace Trim LOVELY!
Size: 15″ x 16″
Starting Price: $29.99
Auction ends: Sunday, July 12, 2015 6:15 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller kouleegirl, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
Comments: A handkerchief of Brussels needlelace applique on machine net. Good romantic floral design, with an edge of bell-like flowers in series.  It’s not very common to see needlelace applique in smaller pieces like this.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  Center cloth removed.
Damage: Small holes and pinholes in the tulle. Some fraying along inside and outside edges.
Soilage: Ivory color. Seller notes stains and light yellowing.
Finish:  Seller notes it feel stiff as though starched.

   No bids.

http://tinyurl.com/n9p9les ANTIQUE EDWARDIAN HAND MADE WHITE LACE WOMAN’S CAP.
Size: 14″ long, 11″ wide (not sure how those measurements were taken).
Starting Price: $165.00 Buy-it-Now or Make Offer
Auction ends: Monday, July 13, 2015 4:49 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller kouleegirl, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
Comments: I think this is a Dutch cap – note the Beveren lace along the lower border. The cap itself is embroidered net in a similar style as the lace; and the piece has been cut to fir the head.  That’s not an unusual arrangement for caps like this. The cap back is rather small, so there are ties under the chin. Quite an elegant design, and a good example of how Flemish lace makes its way to the Netherlands.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Small separation between the fringe and cap back – minor.
Soilage: Looks clean.
Finish: Expected creases in the fringe.

   Unsold as of 7/19/2015 3:28 PM MDT.

http://tinyurl.com/ovovqh8 Pair large 19th C. handmade Irish Crochet lace cuffs or tie ends unusual design
Size: ~11″ x 8″
Starting Price: $48.00
Auction ends: Monday, July 13, 2015 8:29 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller lacemerchant, Whiting, Indiana, United States
Comments: Matching cuffs (or scarf ends as the seller notes) of Irish Crochet. Tight dense work with raised rings used in motif centers. Typical 3 or 4 lobed pinwheel arrangements. Picots look like crochets loops.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos.
Soilage: Look clean.
Finish: No obvious creases or wrinkles.

   Unsold.

http://tinyurl.com/otngjqo Fine Antique/vintage Brussels bobbin lace handkerchief
Size: 13.8″ square
Starting Price: 35.00 GBP
Auction ends: Monday, July 16, 2015 10:51 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller derbeatle, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Comments: A handkerchief, and I wonder if this is Honiton given the extensive woven tally leadwork fillings.  Closely woven work, irregular picoted brides, lots of raised veining in the leaves. Interesting, delicate design.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  None, although the center cloth looks like a replacement.
Damage: Some broken brides, pinholes in the center cloth.
Soilage: ‘Soft old white color’, seller says it has been laundered but doesn’t give any details on the process.
Finish: No obvious creases or winkles.

   Sold for 134.00 GBP, 4 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/na5yyqv Fine antique/vintage Honiton lace handkerchief butterflies, birds, monogram AHH
Size: 13.8″ square
Starting Price: 35.00 GBP
Auction ends: Monday, July 13, 2015 10:57 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller derbeatle, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Comments: A Honiton handkerchief with bird and butterfly figures, monogram AHH worked in lace in one corner. Well made motifs breaking out of the snails/slugs mode, and note the unusual ground added to the piece. There is some interesting raised work in some of the leaves, as well as precise woven leadwork tallies, sometimes used as part of the rose spirals. An unusual and very effective piece.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Some tiny holes and pulls in the center cloth. Lace looks good.
Soilage: Mid ivory color. Seller says it has been laundered but gives no details on the process.  Center cloth has some brown age marks.
Finish: Faint horizontal and vertical fold creases.

   Sold for 67.50 GBP, 5 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/q2magj2 DENTELLE ANCIENNE,POINT DE GAZE, ANTIQUE LACE, BRUSSELS POINT DE GAZE XIXthc
Size: 5.9″/6.2″, not sure what that means. Perhaps a width variation?
Starting Price: 120.00 GBP
Auction ends: Monday, July 13, 2015 11:59 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller bethsalie, paris, Île-de-France, France
Comments: A Point de Gaze collar, no raised work.  Good decorative mode fillings, with a naturalistic effective design. I especially like the extensive grids of fillings near the ends.  Excellent technique, a higher end market piece.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Scattered pinholes in the mesh.
Soilage: Some light brown areas.
Finish: No obvious creases or winkles.

   Sold for 120.00 EUR, 1 bidder.

http://tinyurl.com/oebr2ns ANTIQUE ROMANTIC FINE HANDMADE BRUSSLES MIXED LACE WEDDING HANDKERCHIEF 14″
Size: 14″ square
Starting Price: $99.99
Auction ends: Monday, July 13, 2015 6:03 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller floramaven, Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, United States
Comments: A Duchesse de Bruges handkerchief. Romantic floral design – the motifs are a little loosely worked, but this helps give the dense pattern some lightness.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  None.
Damage: A few frayed ends in the motifs.
Soilage: Yellow age spotting.
Finish: Lace looks worn – probably laundered and pressed at some point.

   No bids.

http://tinyurl.com/ooxqq4p UNIQUE IRISH CARRICKMACROSS LACE HAND FAN MARSHALL FIELD & CO ORIGINAL BOX
Size: 9.5″ long, 17″ wide.
Starting Price: $199.00 Buy-it-Now or Make Offer
Auction ends: Monday, July 13, 2015 7:00 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller msmi3673, Glenview NAS, Illinois, United States
Comments: A Carrickmacross applique fan with blonde sticks. The design includes some cutwork guipure with double picoted brides. Large areas of needle-run fillings. There is no guard extension on the lace and the design looks a bit cut off at the ends. But it all appears to be one piece, and all sides have the typical looped picots. Lots of shamrocks in the design, and the technique is excellent.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos.
Soilage: Looks clean.
Finish: Expected fan creases.

   Buy-it-Now exercised.

http://tinyurl.com/oggoy5b Antique Lot of Mid-Late 19th Century Handmade Chantilly Lace Shawls As-IS
Size: triangular shawl 117″ x 54″, diamond shap 57″ x 39″, flounce 45″ x 140″
Starting Price: $9.99
Auction ends: Monday, July 13, 2015 7:04 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller catalpa1961, Brookfield, Massachusetts, United States
Comments: Three large pieces of Chantilly.  One triangular shawl, one diamond-shaped mantilla, one wide flounce probably a skirt piece. You can get a good looks at the shawl in one photo, the rest are a little hard to see. The large ‘trees’ in the triangular shawl almost look Indian in origin. All are basic 2nd Empire romantic floral design. Note the figural flower baskets in the mantilla.  Many racroc splits – these are difficult to repair properly, mainly because of lack of access to the proper thread.
Quite an interesting set of laces.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  None for the shawl and mantilla. Can’t see the ends of the flounce to tell if they are cut.
Damage: Racroc splits in the shawl, serious racroc? tear in the mantilla. Looks like some repair has already been attempted. Small holes and pinholes elsewhere.
Soilage: Looks clean, but hard to tell with black lace.
Finish: Fold creases evident.

      Sold for $239.50, 9 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/o984y5e Antique/vintage Brussels Duchesse and pointe de gaze lace handkerchief
Size: 12.5″ square
Starting Price: 15.00 GBP
Auction ends: Thursday, July 16, 2015 10:27 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller derbeatle, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Comments: A handkerchief of Duchesse de Bruxelles, no raised work in the point de Gaze motifs.  There are three decorative ‘mode’ fillings in each needlelace insert. Conventional Duchesse bobbinlace in a dense pattern, no raised work (piece is photographed from the back, so not sure if there’s raised work on the front side). Center cloth is a replacement, and the attachment is odd causing the flowers around the needlelace inserts to be off, and the entire center thrown asymmetric.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  Center is a replacement, sewn to the wrong side of the lace.
Damage: A few missing brides. Some small holes in two of the needlelace motifs along the edge.
Soilage: Seller notes a previous wash, bright white color, which could indicate bleaching.
Finish: No obvious creases or winkles.

   Sold for 55.00 GBP, 7 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/qfykz4d Antique/vintage Brussels Point de Gaze lace butterfly
Size: 3.2″ x 2.7″
Starting Price: 10.00 GBP
Auction ends: Thursday, July 16, 2015 10:38 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller derbeatle, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Comments: A Point de Gaze butterfly. These were made in the first part of the 20th century as tourist items – I met a lacemaker who was still making them in 1980. They vary a lot in quality. This one has more than the usual amount of Point de Gaze mesh in the lower wings, and quite a few decorative ‘mode’ fillings. Three raised rings form the body.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos. Mesh looks good.
Soilage: Mid ivory color with a small brown age mark.
Finish: A little wrinkled.  The antennae aren’t quite crisp, minor.

   Sold for 83.00 GBP, 3 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/nalrtjx Antique Cluny Lace Collar
Size: 15″ x 15″ laid flat.  5″ depth, neck opening 6″ across.
Starting Price: $9.00, $25.00 Buy-it-Now
Auction ends: Thursday, July 16, 2015 1:36 PM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller calexa2010, Coupeville, Washington, United States
Comments: A Cluny collar, which implies French manufacture. But note, English workers established a lace industry in India, and Beds-type lace resembling this was made there also. Difficult to say, but the thread might be linen. Raised tally work on the trails – nicely executed.
Provenance:  Piece has been in the seller’s family for over 90 years.
Condition:
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Nothing obvious from the photos.
Soilage: Looks clean.
Finish: Some light fold creases.

   No bids.

http://tinyurl.com/p6o9t5v 120 ins antique/vintage early 19th c fine Mechlin lace border
Size: 4.8″ x 120″
Starting Price: 25.00 GBP
Auction ends: Friday, July 17, 2015 10:41 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller derbeatle, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Comments: A border of Lille point ground lace. The ground is a bit uneven, usually an indication of thread quality, and I think it might be linen.  Heavy border with woven esprits, small buds used as esprits above. Probably early 19th c.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  Cut both ends.
Damage: Numerous small holes and pinholes.
Soilage: Localized brown staining throughout.  Ecru color overall.
Finish: No obvious creases or wrinkles.

   Sold for 32.00 GBP, 2 bidders.

http://tinyurl.com/nozymlk Antique/vintage Honiton lace fall cap
Size: 46″ x 9.5″
Starting Price: 15.00 GBP
Auction ends: Friday, July 17, 2015 10:57 AM PDT
Offered by: Ebay seller derbeatle, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Comments: A Honiton fallcap, snails/slug styles with a lovely form. Woven tally leadwork fillings.  Not the most precise work, but the overall effect is excellent.
Provenance:  None cited.
Condition:
Modifications:  None.
Damage: Seller cites occasional broken bride.
Soilage: Mid ivory color with localized age discoloration.
Finish: No obvious creases or wrinkles.

   Sold for 23.25 GBP, 4 bidders.