Needlework Sampler

Description:

Needlework Sampler, "Lucy M. Bond Aged 12 Years," stitched with cotton threads on a linen ground, depicting five rows of alphabets over a border of a basket of flowers, strawberries, and a pine tree, the lower register depicting a house on a hill surrounded with trees animals, and birds, (toning, fading, minor stains),12 x 10 in., in a later molded wood frame.
Estimate $400-600

Some stitches appear to have been removed between the signature line and the strawberry border, a few small dark stains in alphabet u.l. and whre probable stitch removal area.


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