Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
2017.045.057 |
Object Name |
Scarf, Bureau |
Title |
Floral Embroidery Furniture Scarf |
Year Range from |
1910 |
Year Range to |
1940 |
Made |
McKay (née Beattie), Olive |
Place of Origin |
Unknown/Grey County, Ontario |
Description |
A bureau or furniture scarf that is long, but has three scallops at each short end. There are three groups of three flowers on each end. The flowers are light pink, orange and light violet and are circular in shape with brown stitched seeds in the centres. The bouquets on the sides (four) are tied in light blue stitched bows. |
Provenance |
Likely made by Olive McKay (neé Beattie) of Jackson, after she married Donald Gordon (Doug) McKay in 1930. They farmed on his parents' farm located about one mile north of Leith, at Lot 28, Concession A in Sydenham Township, Grey County until 1940, when they moved to Derby Township to another farm (Lot 9, Concession 8, along Highway 21). The item was last kept by their daughter, Donna McKay-Mills of Owen Sound, Grey County. |
Collection |
Household Equipment, 20th-c Collection |
Material |
Linen/Embroidery Thread/Dye |
Found |
Derby Township (formerly), Township of Georgian Bluffs, Grey County |
People |
McKay, Olive McKay-Mills, Donna |
Subjects |
Embroidery Flowers |
Search Terms |
Leith (Village and area of) Jackson |