19th Century Embroidered Eyelet Lace Samples: Over-sized, Double-sided Page (13 Samples) private property making me think a bit

making me think a bit of gothic gargoyles

"Hers" measures 4" wide x 2 1/2" deep x 5 3/4" tall

Hill (NYC) are beautiful alphabet blocks from the 2nd half of the 19th century

if not the earliest

which is kind of interesting

19th Century Embroidered Eyelet Lace Samples: Over-sized, Double-sided Page (13 Samples) private property making me think a bitI believe this is French and dates to the 1870s 80s; the closest example I could find, down to the manner of the numbering, is a whole sample book of eyelet lace in the collection of the Met, though those samples were more neatly trimmed than these! The dealer I purchased this page from described them as swatches of petticoat lace, and indeed that would be a common use for embroidered cotton eyelet lace like this. This of course is much better in hand