Mechlin Bobbin Lace Edging With Smithsonian Ties
date: label: date made
content: 1770-1810
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Mechlin bobbin lace edging which belonged to Benjamin Rush, 1745-1813, and was left to his daughter-in-law Mrs. Catherine Eliza Murray Rush, wife of the Hon. Richard Rush of Pennsylvania, the first regent of the Smithsonian Institution, to whom was entrusted the transfer of the Smithsonian Bequest from England to the United States.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Lace
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. John Biddle Porter (Mrs. Elizabeth Rush Porter), 1912
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.L7400A
label: catalog number
content: L7400.00A
label: accession number
content: 53779
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lace
label: Object Type
content: lace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bobbin lace, mechlin (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 42 in x 3 in; x 106.68 cm x 7.62 cm