'Siting on a Stile Mary Happy as the Day' is the first line of an Irish lament.
The poem was written in 1845 and is about an Irishman preparing to leave for America for a new life but regretting what he had lost. The Potato Famine caused mass emigration from Ireland particularly to America at this time as crops failed and many starved to death.
The words are inscribed horizontally in red on the mutton bone bobbin.
The spangle is the original.
In excellent condition.
NB. Lace making was a cottage industry using domestic animal bone and local soft woods not ivory.
Stock no. HD33