Needlework Sampler

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Needlework Sampler, "Ruth Hill's Work In the ninth year of her age," possibly New England, late 18th century, worked in silk threads on a linen ground with rows of alphabets over a scene with a house flanked by two women and two girls, trees, and potted plants, enclosed in a geometric flowering vine, (toning, moisture stains, stitch loss),10 x 8 1/2 in., unframed.
Estimate $1,500-2,500

Moisture stains along left and lower edges, several of the letters in the rows of alphabets have lost thier stitches.

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