Context (Display)
Object mounted on display board of hardboard, with metal pins.
Event Date
Author: Heather Donoghue

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten label adhered to reverse of display board: 'Wooden bobbin inscribed 'Samuel' for pillow lace making. English 19th century Mr S.T. Cowles.'
Event Date
Author: Heather Donoghue

Context (Display)
Handwritten label adhered to front display board: 'English. 18th cent. Wooden pillow-lace bobbin, inscibed Samuel. Mr S.T. Cowles.'
Event Date
Author: Heather Donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Accession register: 'A wooden pillow lace bobbin with bead pendants inscribed 'Samuel'.'
Event Date 1915
Author: Heather Donoghue

Context (Related Documents)
See 'Report on Collections Research and Cataloguing Project on Post Medieval 'To Be Disposed Of' Material' by David Kay in the archive (Doc.474) for background information.
Event Date 2019
Author: Heather Donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Green, wooden pillow lace bobbin with 'Samuel’ in dotwork and pink and yellow pigment. Turned with ribbing at top and near bottom; hourglass-shaped finial. Top decorated with five beads, strung in a circle on metal wire; two clear and two pink glass with mottled surface, one white with swirled pattern.
Event Date 20/3/2025
Author: Heather Donoghue

Conservation (Museum Additions Removed)
CON.2025.6163 | Museum Additions Removed
Event Date 28/3/2025
Author: Stephanie De Roemer