Oh my goodness me. This has got to be the find of a lifetime for Ebay vendor, Burgundy Delights hasn't it? While she is selling it per length of individual monogram, it makes such a gorgeous decorative object all by itself, I'm not sure I could bear to part with it.

But then let it be hereby noted that my tendency to hoard all things vintage is getting out of hand. I sometimes think that the whole point of owning anything old is to understand that that ownership is but  a temporary thing. That we can only be the guardians of yesterday until it is time to pass on their blessing to another collector.

What a pity I'm so bloody greedy. Let's just hope nothing too wonderful falls into my hands...