- 3 SCOTTISH & AMERICAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLERS,
SIGNED1st item: Scottish sampler, wool on linen, having a guilloche pattern border surrounding rows of alphabet and numbers separated by geometric bands. Signed and dated...
[more like this] - 19TH C FAYETTEVILLE, NY SAMPLER AND
AMERICAN SAMPLER, T...Two American samplers. 1st item: Sampler made by Hannah Higgins (b. circa 1826), silk on linen, rendered entirely in blue cross stitch with four lines...
[more like this] - 1818 AMERICAN WHITTEMORE FAMILY SAMPLER,
FRAMED Alphabet Sampler in wool on linen, with a floral border, four line sentiment "How frail is life! tis like a fading flowr, That flourishes and withers in an hour, Now...
[more like this] - 1814 AMERICAN SAMPLER Alphabet and Prayer
Sampler by Sarah Ann Baker, aged 12, dated 1814, having two four-line prayers, floral vine and pine frond border, two 'gentlemen' with dogs, tulip trees, housed in the original...
[more like this] - A Needlework Alphabet Sampler
American,
Circa 1844
identified Cathe[r]ine H[a]rvey Y 1844.
with alphabet lines and floral designs.
15 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches.
Property from a Private Collection, Lake Forest, Illinois...
[more like this] - A Needlework Alphabet Sampler Wrought
by Amanda Coolidge
American, Circa 1827
identified Wrought by Amanda Coolidge in the Autumn of 1827 aged 11 years / Sibyl Carleton Instructress.
with alphabet lines and various...
[more like this] - An American Silk Embroidered Bird and
Vine Sampler
Circa 1821
identified Maria Watkins / December 8th 1821.
featuring finely stitched alphabet lines, floral designs, and a perched bird.
with an excerpt from British...
[more like this] - An American Needlework Alphabet Sampler
Circa
1785
having alphabet lines with dogs and trees to lower edge.
identified Hester Kast Her / Work 1085.
21 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches.
Property from a Private Collection, Lake Forest,...
[more like this] - A Needlework Embroidered Schoolgirl's
Sampler, Wrought by Margaret B. Peters
American, Circa 1810
identified Margaret B. Peters Daughter of John and / Margaret Peters.
with alphabet lines above and a domestic...
[more like this] - American sampler, eight lines alphabet
and numbers above "Amanda Robers Aged 12 years", two rows of names and dates from the Santus and Rober families, earliest date 1799, large brick house with fenced...
[more like this] - 1812 alphabet and verse sampler, four
lines of letters and numbers over an eight line verse titled "The fair Ladie's wish", stitched on last line "Philena Severance", lower panel 15 window...
[more like this] - 1828 alphabet sampler, nine-line sampler,
"Mary Ann Connor Oct. 28th 1828" above floral bouquet, simple floral and vine border, silk or linen, American, probably New York, 12 x 8-1/2 in. (sight); modern...
[more like this] - 1841 alphabet sampler, 12-line alphabet
and verse sampler, signed "Mary Ann Fraser aged 9 years 1841", simple band border with two small floral motifs, stitched above border "Mary Ann Fra", silk on linen, probably...
[more like this] - Two needleworks: 1835 floral and bird
needlework, bird perched on branch over “Charity Perry 1835”, silk on linen, American, 16-1/2 x 15-1/2 in. (sight), later frame, fading, darkening of linen ground,...
[more like this] - Schoolgirl Needlework American, probably
Massachusetts, 1799, five lines of alphabet over "Phebe Willington's Sampler Wrought in the 12th Year of her age 1799" stitched within a floral vine border, lower panel with...
[more like this] - 1824 American floral sampler, stitched
"Frances Crowells Sampler Worked in the Tenth Year of her age November the 26 1824" below a four-line verse, alphabet in eyelet stitches top center, asymmetrical arrangement...
[more like this] - 1840 German/American alphabet sampler,
14 lines, stitched "Catherine A. Meirehoft born Germany Oct 15th 1823 Finished Greenwich Conn March 1840" above a four-line verse in German, letters and numbers stitched at...
[more like this] - 1820 alphabet and verse sampler, eight
lines of letters and numbers over a two-line verse, stitched at bottom "Wrought by Susan M Wood Grafton Aged 11 years Aug 22 1820", simple geometric inner border with possibly...
[more like this] - 1831 alphabet sampler, 13 lines, "Elizabeth
Winter's Work in the 7th Year of her Age October 27th 1831", wool on linen, other family initials above name, probably American, 12-1/2 x 9-1/4 in. (sight); modern black wood...
[more like this] - 19th century alphabet sampler, eight
lines, bottom line "Martha M. Dahlgren November 8", American, possibly Pennsylvania, silk on linen, early to mid 19th century, 8-1/4 x 8-1/2 in.; painted gilt wood frame....
[more like this] - 18th century alphabet sampler, nine
lines with two-line verse, indistinct name stitched at bottom with "177(?)", silk on linen, British or American, late 18th century, 10-3/4 x 7-3/4 in. (sight); wood frame...
[more like this] - 1836 alphabet sampler, nine-line alphabet,
dated 1836 and inscribed "FWL" over three flower baskets, floral, strawberry and leaf borders, wool on linen, American, possibly Southern, 16-3/4 x 16-1/2 in. (sight); wood...
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