Woman with Lace Making Pillow, Self-Referential Antique Bobbin Lace Doily in Original Frame antique kindergarden Good now as a paperweight

Good now as a paperweight or to add to the collection of carved or cast arms and legs and feet

calf weaners reflect a wide variety of solutions to a common problem: preventing calves from nursing while allowing them to graze

I believe it likely dates to the very late 19th century or very beginning of the 20th

If I am correct it describes the subject--Carl Eduard Krauss--as born in 1846

Woman with Lace Making Pillow, Self-Referential Antique Bobbin Lace Doily in Original Frame antique kindergarden Good now as a paperweightA bit hard to capture this well due to glare, but I've done my best it is celluloid rather than glass in the frame, original to it, c. 1890s 1900 I believe. I love a piece of antique handmade figural lace, and I especially love things that are self referential, and here we have both: a piece of antique handmade bobbin lace with a picture at center of a seated woman with lace making pillow on her lap. (I've included a photo of the type of pillow used