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Lot 9

Sale 5342 - The Art of Gathering
Dec 9, 2022 6:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$1,000 - 1,500
Price Realized
$630
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Two English or American needlework samplers 18th / early 19th century

Comprising a needlework sampler worked with multicolored threads on cotton or linen ground, featuring pious verse over registers with various patterns and floral motifs, above floral sprays, the bottom inscribed, "Sarah Burnett Finisht this work in the 11 year of my age/ October the 10 1740," with bird's eye maple frame; and a needlework sampler worked with multicolored threads on cotton or linen ground, late 18th or early 19th century, featuring alphabet and inscribed, "Betsey A. Spalding age 8," framed.

15 in. x 8 in. (Flower, sight) and 6 in. x 7 1/4 in. (alphabet, sight)

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