Pin case
Category
Ivory and bone
Date
Unknown
Materials
Ivory, Steel
Measurements
71 mm (Length)17 mm (Diameter)
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339703.6
Summary
One of nine pins, each enclosed in an ivory case. In notebook no.5, page 12 (1340945.5) Charles Wade refers to: 'Lace Room no.140 Set of 10 Ivory cases with needle prickers for piercing the parchment lace patterns' Includes sketch with dimensions 3¼ to 4" long.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 12