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Lot 379
Sale 5248 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Nov 15, 2017
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$1,500 -
2,500
Price Realized
$1,200
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Three needlework "House" samplers Scotland or England, 1830s
The first, inscribed,"Frances Bell wrought this sampler in the year of our Lord 1831, Aged 11 years"; the second, inscribed, "Margaret Flambe's Sampler Finished in the 8th year of her age 1835"; and the third, "Marion Glen Ross Bank Sewed With Miss Dyker in Miss Colquhoun of Luss's School Aged 10 May the 28 1830," mounted in a mahogany fire screen, all worked with silk and wool threads on a wool ground.
15 7/8 in. x 15 3/8 in.; 20 3/4 in. x 16 1/2 in.; and 28 in. x 24 in.