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Lot 592
Sale 916 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Lots 1-410
Sep 30, 2021
6:00AM ET
Lots 411-816
Oct 1, 2021
6:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$8,000 -
10,000
Price Realized
$5,000
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Lot Description
A Lancaster County Needlework Sampler, Likely from the School of Leah Bratten Galligher Meguier
1817
depicting a woman embroidering under a tree and within a floral border, reading Sarah Eberlein is my name / and with the needle wrought the / same in Lancaster County i was / born the 3rd of November in the / morn 1806 as i am told which / makes me near 11 years old.
21 x 16 1/4 inches.
The sampler is described in the 1903 Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, page 1223, in the entry of Milton Wike, Sarah Eberlein's son.
21 x 16 1/4 inches.
The sampler is described in the 1903 Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, page 1223, in the entry of Milton Wike, Sarah Eberlein's son.