SOLD Elizabeth Spurgin's Best and Most Singular Old Lace and Crochet Samples Book I've Ever Seen! glazed pottery vase With the alignment of her

With the alignment of her head/hair and the lone tree out there in the distance

All carved from one piece of wood and stained a sort of dark red (making it a perfect valentine

But soon it grew to be a cat

with some sort of cultivating or harvesting tool in hand

SOLD Elizabeth Spurgin's Best and Most Singular Old Lace and Crochet Samples Book I've Ever Seen! glazed pottery vase With the alignment of herA true treasure, this one a trove of many many treasures, really, and the manifestation of a lifetime's accumulation of lacemaking knowledge by a Ms. Elizabeth Reasoner Spurgin (1842 1927), who handed the book down to her daughter, Estella Eeels, in 1914. The first inside page of the book provides a full, typewritten provenance, right down to the album's loan to Nemaha County Museum in 1990 from Nathan Eells of Ogallala, Nebraska. Photos give a good