American Furniture & Decorative Arts
08-14-201008-15-2010
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
2509Marlborough
August 14, 2010 03:00 PM
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$1,126$950
Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2509Location: MarlboroughDate / Time: August 15, 2010 10:00AM
Description:
Needlework Family Record Sampler, "Wrought by Mary Ann Wood Millbury in 1827 AE 13," Massachusetts, worked in silk threads on a linen ground, listing the vital statistics of Asa Wood, b. 1765, and Polly Stoddard, b. 1793, and their seven children, with a row of alphabets, flowering vine, a house, pious verse and a weeping willow tree, enclosed in a geometric flowering vine, (minor toning and fading, a few stains),sight size 15 1/2 x 22 in., in a later molded giltwood frame.
Estimate $1,500-2,500