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Honiton museum curator Margaret Lewis
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12:00 PM May 8, 2021
  
This banner screen was made by Miss Ann Ward for the Bath and West of England Agricultural Society Honiton lace competition in June 1871
- Credit: Honiton Museum
This banner screen was made by Miss Ann Ward for the Bath and West of England Agricultural Society Honiton lace competition in June 1871.
She was not awarded a prize because the gentlemen judges from South Kensington did not believe that the lace had been  made in England owing to its high quality. 
Ann offered to make another in front of the judges.
Later,  the  prize was sent to her, but she refused to accept it and sent it back.  At the end of June that year the banner screen and other examples  of Ann’s Honiton lace  were exhibited at the Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter.  ....

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