- +SCHOOLGIRL SAMPLER: MARY "POLLY" ELLIOT
(AMERICAN, 1776 - 1859), NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, 1795, SILK ON LINEN, CROSS-STITCH ON BLACK GROUND, POLYCHROME FLOWERING VINE ON TOP AND SIDE BORDERS, CENTER OF NEEDLEWORK DESCRIBE...+SCHOOLGIRL...
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item: Elmira Deacon Dungan, 19th century American needlework family record sampler with house, silk and wool or cotton on linen. Floral vine top border and alphabet and numbers...
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comprising: an alphabet sampler with bordering and floral accents, sight, 8-1/4 x 11-3/8 in., wooden frame with wire hanger 11-7/8 x 14-1/4 in.; one stitched in red and green...
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C.H. TUCKER 1864 EARLY TENNESSEE NEEDLEPOINT SAMPLER ON LINEN HAVING TREE LINED BORDER SURROUNDING BODY OF WORK WITH LARGE CENTER BUTTERFLY REPRESENTING ETERNAL LIFE, HAVING...
[more like this] - AMERICAN MARY WALLACE 1802 NEEDLEPOINT
SAMPLERFramed American needlepoint sampler on linen, Mary Wallace, age 13, 1802, with upper and lowercase alphabet and numbers, reading: "If there's a pow'r above us, (And...
[more like this] - AMERICAN SARAH VEAZEY LUSBY NEEDLEPOINT
SAMPLERFramed American needlepoint sampler on linen, Sarah Veazey Lusby (Cecil, Maryland, 1784-1844), age 11, with upper and lowercase alphabet and numbers, motto reading:...
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Worked in multi-color silk threads on loose linen ground in a two panel design, left panel with eight alpha-numeric rows above maker's information reading, "Elizabeth Macon...
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ALPHABET AND VERSE, SIGNED AND DATED 1757 ALPHABET AND VERSE, SIGNED AND DATED 1757, verse reads "H.Mars— is my name and English is my Nation Quaker Ridge is my Dwelling...
[more like this] - TWO AMERICAN SAMPLERS BY PRISCILLA D.
AND ELIZABETH PARK, CIRCA 1825-1835 AND ELIZABETH PARK, CIRCA 1825-1835, worked by Priscilla D. Park (b. 1817) and Elizabeth Park, the larger rectangular needlework sampler...
[more like this] - AMERICAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER STARTED
BY SALLYPRATT, READING, MA, BUT NEVER FINISHED. AFTER HER DEATH IN 1833 IT WAS COMPLETED BY HER SON DAVID FRANCIS PRATT IN 1834. IT DEPICTS TWO HOUSES WITH BIRDS ON ROOF...
[more like this] - 1787 American Sampler Bottom reads:
''Mary Brady Childs made this in July 9 1787''. Depicting house parents figures at bottom flowers birds etc.Condition: Very good.Dimensions: 16'' x 13''E...
[more like this] - SAMPLER. Rebecca Read American 1829
silk on linen. Thirteen-year old Rebecca bordered her sampler with a scalloped flowering vine and worked a pair of pointed trees baskets birds and little dogs. In a frame...
[more like this] - SAMPLER. American 1847 silk and
wool on linen. Marking sampler with a pair of white birds in a potted tree and two little dogs one red the other blue. Illegible. In a frame 9 1/4''h. 11 1/2''w. ...
[more like this] - SAMPLER. American 1811 silk on linen.
Ten-year-old Martha Fay worked an inner border of diamonds around sets of alphabets a verse extolling the virtues of education and a pictorial section including a large...
[more like this] - An American Needlework Sampler dated
1806 worked by Margaret aged 19 (Brunswick ME 1806). Embroidered in blue and red silk on linen with two alphabets above a lower register which reads: 'was born August th6/...
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