- FRAMED SCHOOLGIRL SAMPLER OF CATHARINE
A. SLAYMAKEca. 1822 dated; silk thread and cotton thread embroidered sampler on non-bleached homespun fabric, two line and trailing vine border with nine letter/number lines...
[more like this] - FRAMED ANTIQUE NEEDLEWORK AND WATER
COLOR MEMORIAL TO THE STANWOOD FAMILY, Circa 1805, worked in multi-color silk threads and watercolor, depicting a young boy and girl creating a floral garland beside the...
[more like this] - MARY WOODRUFF'S GEORGE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL
SAMPLER DATED 1835, NEW JERSEY Worked in multi-color silk on linen ground at Miss Barton's School, Elizabeth Town, New Jersey, centered with a large scale urn "In / Memory...
[more like this] - AMERICAN QUILT REFERENCE BOOKSAMERICAN
QUILT REFERENCE BOOKS, topics relate to American regionalism as well as women and African American quiltmaking, titles include: The Quilts of Gee's Bend, Tinwood Books, 2002;...
[more like this] - TWO LATE 19TH/ EARLY 20TH C. DRESSES
WITH MUSEUM PROVENANCE, BOTH A PURPLE HUE, DETAILS INCLUDE: LAVENDER TAFFETA DRESS, MID TO LATE...Two late 19th/ early 20th C. dresses with museum provenance, both a purple...
[more like this] - VICTORIAN WEDDING DRESS, WHITE SATIN
WITH LACE TRIM, C. 1885, MUSEUM PROVENANCE, TWO PIECES, BODICE AND SKIRT WITH TRAIN, DETAILS IN...Victorian wedding dress, white satin with lace trim, c. 1885, museum provenance,...
[more like this] - Lot of dresser items, including (3)
paneled glass jars with brass lids, (2) paneled glass jars with guilloche enamel lids, glass bottle with nickel silver lid, two wood backed brushes in leather case (some stitching...
[more like this] - AMERICAN QUILT REFERENCE BOOKSAMERICAN
QUILT REFERENCE BOOKS, topics relate to American regionalism as well as women and African American quiltmaking, titles include: The Quilts of Gee's Bend, Tinwood Books, 2002;...
[more like this] - THREE SAMPLERS. Two are memorial. Silk
on olive green linen. Maine sampler with verse and "...Martha McLean Coffin, daughter of Edmund & Mary S. Coffin Biddeford born June 29 1806 died February 10, 1808". Some...
[more like this] - TWO FRAMED SAMPLERS. English, nineteenth
century. "In Memory Of" sampler by Mary Pickering. Ca. 1852. Death record, religious verse, tombstone, trees and angels. Stitch loss. Framed. 27"w. 27.75"h. Showcase sampler...
[more like this] - Large memorial cross stitch sampler,
"In Memory of Hannah Broadbent Who Died May 20th 1856 In The 64 Year of Her age", with poem, monument, trees, & angels, Maria Broadbent's Work 1861, 31-3/4" x 28-3/4" overall,...
[more like this] - SAMPLER. Probably England 2nd quarter-19th
century silk on wool. Finely worked in minute stitches. Rows of alphabets and numbers over band of shaded roses a central memorial with palm trees flame stitch pattern...
[more like this] - 1825 American memorial sampler, monument
beneath willow tree and between two houses, one with sleeping dog, top center eagle below E Pluribus Unum flanked by two flower baskets, "Emily Bradburys Sampler December...
[more like this] - 1802 Memorial Embroidery American, possibly
New York, arched willow over swag-decorated urn on large plinth, "Sacred to the memory of Mrs S Adams who died June 25th At 81.1802" stitched on plinth, silk thread on silk,...
[more like this] - FINE MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL. Sally
F. Cheever Danvers Essex County 1820-1825 watercolor on paper. Skillfully painted brush stokes simulating needlework stitches inscribed ''Sacred to the Memory of'' and...
[more like this] - Washington memorial printed panel, titled
"The Tears of America", sepia printed on linen or cotton, "EB" stitched in blue silk thread proper left bottom corner with paper label attributing the...
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