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antique VICTORIAN WOMANS BLOUSE w/lace EVALYN BIETSCH
Antique Victorian woman's blouse or shirt with beatiful lace cap sleeves and neckline. Back has shell buttons (or it may be the front) and neckline lace has small silk string that gathers the lace around the neckline. There is also strings at waist sides that ties in back to gather the waist in as well. Very pretty and feminine!
Inside on the seam with buttonholes there is the name Evalyn Biestch written twice in ink.
Measurements are approx. 18" from top of lace at shoulder to bottom hem, lace cap sleeves 2 1/2", 42" for fabric around bust but remember it gathers at neck and waist for perfect fit.
Fabric is thin cotton off white color. It has some age spots and discoloration. Looks to be handmade. There are no holes or tears in fabric that I can see. Pretty lace has a 2" split on it that could be repaired or restitched probably. Also has a stretched area and a few small 1/4" holes in places.
This is for shirt or blouse only, does not include skirt, that is separate listing.
Here is information I found on the Bietsch Family Geneology from search for ancestors.com
History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, 1887George Bietsch BiographyGeorge Bietsch, manufacturer of cigars and dealer in cigars, tobaccos, etc., Chambersburg, was born at Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, August 30, 1843, the youngest child of Frederick and Elizabeth (Eckstein) Bietsch. He received a plain education in the schools of his native town. In 1861 he, in company with his parents, came to America and direct to Chambersburg. In the same year George commenced an apprenticeship with George Bruner at the trade of cigar making, and was next in the employ, as clerk and journeyman, of Moses Greenawald, and continued with these gentlemen, respectively, until 1863. In that year he taught a German public school at Chambersburg one session. Following the destruction of Chambersburg, he filled a similar position at Pittsburgh for some four years. In the fall of 1868 he returned to Chambersburg, and commenced the manufacture of cigars and the tobacco trade, in his present location at No. 79 South Main Street, where he is doing a fair business, usually employing from six to eight hands. In 1865 Mr. Bietsch married Elizabeth Pressler, and to them have been born eleven children, nine of whom are living, five daughters -Eva, Katie, Lottie, Gertie and Alice -and four sons -Emil, George, Charles and Thomas. Mr. Bietsch is organist of the Episcopal Church, a position he has held for the past ten years. His family attend the same church. Mr. Bietsch has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1870, and master of George Washington Lodge, No. 143, for the past two years. |
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