Large Lot of C. 1940 Lacemaking Patterns, Sketches and Samples, Boston MA treen ink bottle I presume a tourist souvenir

I presume a tourist souvenir from Alaska

And then just this simple polka dotted homespun indigo dress

and I believe made of boxwood

It feels to me like one that would feel right at home hung next to old diorama in an eccentric natural history museum

Large Lot of C. 1940 Lacemaking Patterns, Sketches and Samples, Boston MA treen ink bottle I presume a tourist souvenirTons of photos here, as I do like to document things thoroughly. This is a large lot of c. 1940 bobbin lace making patterns, with a few drawings, lace samples, and other notes in the mix. (One handwritten letter references a lace pattern sent to the Emma Sylvester whose lot this was in Feb 1940.) Emma appears to have had a shop on Tremont Street in Boston (selling "beads and bags, embroideries and worsteds") and it seems to me she may have taught