Hooked Hearth Rug
New England
Mid 19th Century

Within the undulating saw-tooth border against the variegated ground is a gallery of bold graphic design. A balanced and pleasing collage of explosive shapes and wonderful color. The leaf-like compositions centering geometric and floral devices that are wild with color, motion and texture; the work was/is brilliantly conceived, well organized and successfully executed. Approximately 6-inches of one short end has been professionally restored. (78 x 38 inches.)
Price: $7,250
523-2

Needlework...silk on silk
Maine Family Record
Wrought By Betsy Flagg
Female Academy, Augusta
July 24th. AD 1823

This example festooned with the popular Portland type rose border tied with bowknots at top corners and center. Betsy's work is competent, graphic and neatly laid-out. The silk ground has a few tiny losses a few small spots as depicted...nothing that compromises the aesthetic. The work is mounted within an old birds eye maple frame that measures 23.5 x 25.375-inches; the view area: 23.125 x 21.25-inches.
Price: $7,750
475-29



Outstanding Family Register
Wrought at Elizabeth Hussey's School
By Ann Matilda Greely
Portland, Maine
Circa 1818

Frame: 20 x 23.5 inches; view: 17 x 20.5 inches.
Price: $12,000
324-23





Embroidered Table Cover
Vermont

Dimensions: 27.75 by 34.75-inches.
Price: $750
775-248


Needlework, silk on linen
By Charlotte White
Aged 12
Middlesex County
Massachusetts
Circa 1826

Charlotte stitched a very unusual compartmentalized sampler which included her parents births and marriage; also, the birth and marriage of their children. She followed with verse. "These eyes which now behold this work/ and trace these lines along/ will soon be clos'd [sic] no more to look/ And laid within the tomb/
Wrought by Charlotte White AE 12." (Sight size: 17 by 16.5-inches.)
Price: $4,975
324-24





Charming 19th Century Hooked Rug with Pair of Doves

Mounted for display
Dimensions: 61.5 by 22.75-inches.
Price: $5,475
573-3

Appliqué Wool Rug
19th Century

Dimensions: 38.5 by 30.25-inches.
Price: $725
175-41

Charming Pocket Watch Sampler

A form of early 19th century love token...these smallest of samplers were worked for the inside of a gentleman's watch case.
This watch case sampler measures 1.5-inch in diameter and is nicely framed in a 6 by 6-inches frame.
Price: $750
372-3


Pair of Beaded Fire Fans

Dimensions for both: 17.25-inches in length, 8-inches in width.
Price: $1,250
405-5



Carriage Robe

Dimensions: approximately 79 by 56-inches.
Price: $250
775-216


English Sampler
Emily Lerner, Age 9
1889

The sampler reads: "Emily Lerner Finished This Work In The 9 Year of Her Age 1889".
Dimensions: 9.5 by 11.25-inch frame, 8.125 by 9.5-inch sampler.
Price: $725
436-1

Smiling Cat on Colorful Variegated Background
With flowers in the 4 corners

Wool; dimensions: 34-inches by 22-inches.
Price: $850
533-35
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