- FRAMED 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN NEEDLEWORK
SAMPLERpossibly Southern, signed and dated "Fanny Cooks Sampler marked 1830", alphabet and verse above fruiting trees, floral and foliate borders, 15-1/2 x 13-1/4 in.; probably...
[more like this] - BLOUNT COUNTY WOOL BIRD SAMPLERTennessee
pictorial needlework sampler by (Mary) Ann Pass of Blount County, worked in wool on linen, depicting a central red bird or cardinal and floral branch, with flowers, urn, and...
[more like this] - TEN SOUTHERN FURNITURE AND ANTIQUES
BOOKScomprising: This Have I Done: Samplers and Embroideries from Charleston and the Lowcountry by Jan Hiester and Kathleen Staples, South Carolina: The Charleston Museum/Curious...
[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] - Two early needlework samplers British
or American probably early to mid 19th century decorated with alphabets verses and various motifs framed. One by Margaret Akins (probably Adkins). H12'' W8 1/4'' and H12 1/2''...
[more like this] - American needlework alphabet sampler
dated 1819 floral border centering bands of script and black letter sequences over scene of figures trees and Georgian buildings above maker's inscription: Worked by Mary...
[more like this] - 1835 North Carolina sampler, 13 lines
of letters, numbers and four-line verse, cross-stitched in blue thread "Orry A. Alexander.was.born.Nov.22'd 1824.", cross-stitched bottom center in red threads...
[more like this] - Greensboro, North Carolina sampler,
six lines of letters and numbers over a two-line verse, stitched lower panel "Eugenia Asia Hogan/Greensboro Academy/June 18(?)", floral and plant motifs, simple...
[more like this] - 19th century Baltimore sampler, house
with eight windows in a fenced yard with side building, ducks and quadrupeds, female figures holding purses and with dogs, diamond-shaped trees at each side of house, top...
[more like this] - Books: Antiques and decorative art reference
Montgomery Florence M. TEXTILES IN AMERICA 1650-1870; Combs Diana Williams. EARLY GRAVESTONE ART IN GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA; Deas Alston. THE EARLY IRONWORK OF CHARLESTON;...
[more like this] - North Carolina sampler, stitched "This
sampler was wrought in Columbus County by Letsy Ann Young 1842" below a four-line verse and six lines of letters and numbers, lower panel with house and yard with trees,...
[more like this] - Lincolnton, North Carolina sampler,
eleven lines, stitched at bottom "Margaret B. Henderson Worked in her year" below alphabet, numbers and "Lincolnton No Ca", chain border, silk and cotton on cotton, early...
[more like this] - 1825 mill and verse sampler, mill with
pond and ducks surrounded by trees under two four-line verses titled "Religion" and "Wisdom", below mill "Ann Wayne 1825", rose and vine border, silk on linen, 17-1/2 x 21...
[more like this] - Collection of American and British needlework
samplers 19th century consisting of: Rhode Island sampler with manor house inscribed: Christian McNicol sewed this sampler in the 7th year of her age with Janet Held in Johnston-1832...
[more like this] - SAMPLER. Deborah Covington Kentucky
1835 silk on linen. Arcaded floral borders on three sides top border with rose buds. Alphabets above verse and signed in wreath of rose buds. ''Deborah Covington Ky 1835''...
[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] - Needlework sampler with transportation
motifs possibly Continental dated 30 April 1895 featuring the alphabet in various fonts with bicyclist steam train hot air balloon animal floral and religious motifs. Made...
[more like this] - Twenty-One Books and Catalogs, Quilts,
Samplers and Related Textiles detailed listing available. Susan Swan, A Winterthur Guide to American Needlework; Fennelly, The Garb of Country New Englanders; Hall and Kretsinger,...
[more like this] - 1846 Connecticut sampler, 12-line alphabet
and verse sampler with white house, "Grace Victoria Dowd/Aged Eight 1846" flanked by two potted plants, lower panel "Cynthia S. Griswold Instructress"...
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