06-04-200606-04-2006
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2322Boston
June 4, 2006 11:00 AMCalender
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Needlework Sampler

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$1,880$1,600
Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2322Location: BostonDate / Time: June 04, 2006 11:00AM

Description:

Needlework Sampler, executed by "Peggy Meloon Aged 12 Years 1797," possibly Portsmouth, New Hampshire, silk threads on a green woven linsey-woolsey ground, with rows of alphabets over a verse "Now cheerful along the gay weed/The daisy and the cowslip appear/The flocks as they carelessly feed/Rejoice in the spring of the year," (minor losses to backing),17 x 7 in., in a black painted pine frame with gilt liner.

A genealogical search records that a girl named Peggy Meloon was born in 1785, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the year that the maker of this sampler was born. Also according to Descendants of Enoch Meloon 1755-1794 by Michael Meloon, "The (Meloon) family in the United States seems to have begun in New Hampshire, then spread slowly to Maine and Massachusetts."
Estimate $800-1,200

Keywords

Peggy Meloon, New Hampshire, Portsmouth, genealogical search, United States, Enoch Meloon, Maine, Michael Meloon, Massachusetts