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Pair Of Outstanding Samplers
Martha Perrens Work Aged 13-1825
Mary Perrens Work Aged 10-1825
Elaborate borders enclose the well filled central areas wrought with a profusion of stylized flowers, animals, trees; birds and houses. Also, Adam and Eve, other people, eagles, angels, horses, cow and other quadruped...within Martha's work is a man that is as tall as the three story dwelling. These works appear to be mounted within original black enamel frames with gilt liners and are stretched directly on backboards; excellent condition. (Frames: 29.625 x 24.875-inches; sight-sizes: 25.25 x 20.5-inches.)
Price: $19,250
505-39
Blue Damask Bedcover
Dimensions: 71.5 by 94.5-inches.
Price: $575
301-6
Hannah Carlson, her Sampler
Wrought in the Fifteenth year of her age 1793
Dimensions: 12 by 18-inch frame, 10 by 16-inch sight-size.
Price: $2,675
240-46
Rooster and the Hens Out in the Yard
Large 19th Century wool hooked rug, double border frames the rooster and two hens face to face out in the farmyard. This is a great country rug in excellent condition and mounted for display.
Dimensions: 32.5 by 51.25-inches
Price: $9,500
210-121
Blue and Pumpkin Homespun
19th Century Pennsylvania Homespun in rarely found blue and pumpkin. - SOLD
This large 54.5 by 95-inch textile is among the most sought after of early American textiles both for its size and hard to find color combination.
Overall condition is very good to excellent.
301-8 - SOLD
Marking Sampler
By Harriet Sanders
Townsend, Massachusetts
Circa 1829
Harriet was born to Jacob and Sabra Sanders 23 February, 1843.
The simple work was wrought at aged 9, February 1829. (The textile measures: 17 5/8 by 5.75-inches; framed: 11.5 by 23.5-inches.)
Price: $875
607-1
Album Quilt
19th Century
Dimensions: approximately 71 by 91-inches.
Price: $10,250
232-121
Sampler
"Mary Casey is my name and with my needle wrought"
Rhode Island
Circa 1763
Probably Newport, Rhode Island...silk on linen needlework sampler, inscribed "Mary Casey is my name and with my needle wrought", finely wrought with bands of verse and central band of stylized flowers, all within a floral, line and saw-tooth border done in shades of green, blue, yellow, brownish-red, and tan. Also birds, stylized trees and intricate stitch work. The work remains bright and fine excepting thread losses within alphabet and verse. Conservation mounted with a modern Hogarth type frame having overall dimensions of 16.5 by 23-inches.
Price: $17,500
156-9
Show Towel
White-On-White
Rabbit Motif...rare
Pennsylvania
Circa 1860
A balanced plain weave cotton panel with white cotton chain and satin stitches. The spotted rabbit is four inches high and six inches wide; other design elements include birds, pine trees, leafy branches and the date-"1860".. (11 1/8 by 15 1/8-inches.) Literature: Published on page 264, plate 558 of Ellen J. Gehret's This Is The Way I Pass My Time.
Price: $1,050
301-5
Pastoral Scene
Canvaswork
England, Circa 1720-50
Executed in "tent stitch" form, this pastoral scene depicts a shepherd with sheep, a walking figure, a dog with "bc" on its collar, and birds in the corners. The frame measures 29 by 30.75-inches, while the view area measures 25 by 27-inches.
Price: $16,950
605-6
Embroidered Red and White Bedcover
With scalloped border
Circa 1900
Red cotton thread embroidered on a white cotton twill bedcover. This could easily be used as a tablecover.
Dimensions: approximately 88 by 71-inches.
Price: $650
231-7
Cat and Goose Hooked Rug
YIKES! Goose meets cat; wool on burlap with minor losses.
Dimensions 40 by 23-inches.
Price: $995
533-29
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