08-11-201908-11-2019
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
August 11, 2019 10:00 AMCalender
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Two English Needlework Samplers

Sell one like this
$369$300
Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 3278MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: August 11, 2019 10:00AM

Description:

Two English Needlework Samplers, 18th and 19th century, one stitched with two lines of alphabet and numbers over three lines of verse and signed in needlework "Mary Furset/Her Sampler Wrought In The II/Year Of Her Age 1733" above a brick building flanked by flowers and birds, with "GR" and three crowns; the other sampler stitched in silk on a yellow silk background with potted flowers above four lines of verse and signed in needlework "Susanna/Warren/Born Oct 22/1845," both framed, ht. to 9 1/4 in.
Estimate $400-600


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