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Lace pillow with lace pricking, lace, and homemade wooden bobbins. Printed cotton stuffed with salt marsh grass.
pillows
bobbin lace
cotton (textile)
grass (plant material)
Pillow
Pillow
Newspaper clipping and train timetable found in bobbin pocket. Card reads: ""CHOATE'S/ IPSWICH AND BOSTON EXPRESS/ LEAVES IPSWICH, DAILY AT A.M./ LEAVES BOSTON, "" P.M./ OFFICES/ No. 21 Rail Road Exchange, .......Boston/ S.N. Raker's Store.....Ipswich.""
Unknown
8 x 8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Miss Helen Choate
1943.479
Massachusetts (United States)
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