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May 21, 2016 10:00 AMCalender
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Needlework Alphabet Sampler

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$300$300
Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2897MLocation: Off PremisesDate / Time: May 21, 2016 10:00AM

Description:

Needlework Alphabet Sampler, Lydia Bishop, possibly Lisbon, Connecticut, 1829, seven lines of alphabet and numbers above a stitched three-story house flanked by trees and cats or dogs, ht. 13 1/2, wd. 12 in.

Provenance: Acquired from and old Guilford, Connecticut, family, 1969.

Note: Genealogical records document a Lydia Bishop who was born March 28, 1819, in Lisbon, Connecticut, and died December 11, 1906, in Chicago, Illinois.
Estimate $400-600


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Keywords

Lydia Bishop, Chicago, Guilford