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Lot 270
Sale 1226 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Oct 4, 2023
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$800 -
1,200
Lot Description
Three Needlework Alphabet Samplers, Including a Rare Apron
19th Century
one sampler wrought by Ellen Wybrow Aged 10 / 1862 with verse from the hymn "A Charge to Keep I Have."
5 1/8 x 4 1/4 inches.
second sampler wrought by E.A. Monroe / 1840 with stitched house and tree motifs beneath alphabet lines.
6 x 4 inches.
apron with alphabet lines and rows of stitched geometric patterns, with examples of darning, shirring, and buttonholes.
11 1/4 x 7 inches.












