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Creator(s): Unknown

Currently in storage


About this object

A White double looped tatted edging.

Made from:
Cotton
Made in:
UNITED STATES
Date made:
ca. 1950
Size:
1.3 × 114.3 cm (1/2 × 45 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
45.462
Class:
Lace
Signature marks:
Paper On an orange piece of paper in pencil is written on one side/Please return this if you cannot buy it thanks/Please return this if you or any of your friends cannot buy it from me. I depend on the cash so very much Thanks /If you have a discarded coat eith mens or ladies Id be very glad to get it no matter what size or color or Cond thanks/This is made for around the edge of a ladies handkerchief/ On the back of the paper is Read use it please/Thank You!/(This was enclosed in an envelope that had written on the front in pencil Tatting edge/ on the back of the envelope was embossed COPERHAVER./1521 CONNECTICUT AVENUE./WASHINGTON, D.C./Printed on the back of the envelope was 1700 FOXHALL ROAD The tatting was inside the envelope.
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973