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COLEM:2008.C329

Colchester Collections

Twelve wooden lace bobbins (six with beaded ends), each with a name etched with blue, red and yellow painted dots. In two crystal boxes A - B Names are Charles, Caroline, Thomas, Edith, Mildred, Levina, Ann, Matilda, Jane, Rupert, Jane and Henry. Box A: 6 dark wooden bobbins decorated with coloured indented dots making up names - Charles (spangle of nine glass beads), Jane (no spangle), Mildred (spangle of six blue and yellow beads in glass and one metal bead), Caroline (no spangle), Jane (spangle of seven blue and black glass beads), Rupert (spangle lost). Longest 120mm, shortest 100mm Box B: 6 dark wooden bobbins with coloured indented dots making up names - Ann (spangle of seven clear, light blue and dark blue glass beads), Henry (spangle of nine pink, clear and black glass beads), Edith (spangle of seven pink, clear and black glass beads), Matilda (no spangle), Levina (no spangle), Thomas (no spangle). Longest 140mm, shortest 102mm.

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