Samplings: Antique samplers and silk embroideries from M. Finkel and Daughter

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1sold.gif Martha R. Aaronson, Burlington County, NJ, 1838

$

1sold.gif Phoebe Abbott, Bishopsbourne School, England, 1831

$

Phebe Ackerman, Fishkill, New York, 1831

$2300

Silk Purse owned by Sally Adams, with papers regarding her tenure as a student at Mary Balch’s school, 1813

$8400

ASF, German sampler, dated 1766

$2560

Nancy Battelle, silk embroidery entitled “Juvenile Diversion”, Mrs. Rowson School, Boston, circa 1800

$12,000

Two Samplers by Lucinda Beck, Montgomery County, New York, 1831 & 1836

$3800

1sold.gif SB, Bethel, Maine, 1826

$

The Finding of Moses, Ann Bramley, England 1846

$4250

Emma Brough, England, 1849

$975

Bullfinch and Basket of Strawberries, England, circa 1825

$3850

Sarah Jane Burnham, Ipswich, Massachusetts, circa 1833

$1150

1sold.gif Civil War Carpetbag, owned by Thomas K. Jones of Portland, Maine, circa 1860

$

Ann Crisp, probably Philadelphia, 1785

$2800

1hold.gif Lydia Cummings, Winchendon, Mass., 1824

$1900

Darning Sampler, northern Europe, 1788

$5200

Basket of Flowers with Butterflies and Sheep, Delaware, circa 1810

$16,000

1hold.gif Downe Family Register, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, circa 1825

$3300

Dutch Motif Sampler Initialed LVG, 1786

$3200

FCC, Plain Sewing Samplers, European, circa 1850

$1200

1sold.gif Tabitha Field, Chesterfield, Burlington Co., New Jersey, 1820

$

1new.gif Eleanor Fisher, Rush Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, 1839

$12,500

1sold.gif Friesian Sampler, DF, Holland, 1738

$

Charlotte Frye, Andover, Massachusetts, 1811

$8800

Geffroy Family Print-work Silk Embroidery, Mary Balch School, Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1818

$9,000

Mercy Gillow, St. Nicholas at Wade, Kent, England, 1769

$4400

Evelina S. Gilman, Canterbury school, New Hampshire, circa 1825

$14,500

1sold.gif Polly Goodridge, silk embroidery memorial to two siblings, Lynn, Massachusetts, circa 1815

$

1hold.gif George Washington Printed Handkerchief, American, circa 1810

$2400

1sold.gif Hector, Portrait of a Lion, England, circa 1850

$

1sold.gif Agnes Henry, Beadwork sampler on punched paper, Scotland, 1848

$

Eunice L. Holt, Hopewell, New Jersey, 1837

$3400

Louisa Hose, England, dated 1840

$1200

Mary Howe, England, 1832

$4200

Elizabeth K. Hunt, Stoddard, New Hampshire, 1825

$2300

ICH, Hamburg, Germany, 1819

$1950

Buttonhole Sampler, initialed IDA, Germany, 1811

$4200

Silk embroidered picture, Italy, circa 1800

$1800

“John and Ellin” Ship sampler, Wales, circa 1825

$5800

1new.gif Eliza Kenney, Cold Overton Asylum, Leicestershire, England, 1828

$1800

1sold.gif Emily Knox, York County, Maine, 1826

$

1sold.gif Mary Ann Leaman, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1842

$

1sold.gif Hannah Lewis, Philadelphia, 1812

$

Sally G. Lovejoy, Wilton, New Hampshire, circa 1810

$3850

1new.gif LP, Pennsylvania German, 1842

$2200

1sold.gif Margaret McLeod, Greenock, Scotland, 1818

$

Zelphia Merrill, Durham, Maine, 1827

$2200

Elizabeth Mitchell, Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1828

$5800

Needlework Flowers on Paper, England, 1803

$1450

1sold.gif Jane Nelson, Turner’s Hospital, Kirkleatham, England, 1813

$

Mary Pearse, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1810

$4200

"Memen to Mori" silk embroidery, Moses and Elizabeth Peck, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1810

$12,000

Pennsylvania German Sampler dated 1820, Warwick, Lancaster County, PA

$2800

Les Pensionnaires Pieuse, France, circa 1820

$8600

Pictorial Sampler, Scotland, 1809

$6800

Pocketbook, European, late 18th century

$2200

Charlotte Reed, Milton, Massachusetts, 1813

$3800

1new.gif Sophia L. Richardson, Cornish, New Hampshire, circa 1831

$4200

Kezia Ridgway, Salem County, New Jersey, 1800

$14,000

Hannah Riley, England, 1828

$2200

Russian Embroidery, Tver Region, late 19th Century

$1200

Eliza Sanger, Newton Academy, Mass., 1805

$4200

1sold.gif Elizabeth Simpson, Solebury, Bucks County, PA, 1815

$

Sarah Smith, England, circa 1800

$3200

Margaret Spender, England, 1810

$2600

Spot Sampler, England, mid 17th century

$4800

Stanwood Family Silk Embroidered Memorial, Massachusetts or New York, circa 1805

$9400

Matilda Stedman, Southbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1828

$4500

1new.gif Ann Suydam, Brooklyn, New York, 1833

$3200

Margaret Swayer, Ohio Shaker Sampler, North Union Community, 1844

$22,000

Isabella Taylor, Birmingham, England, 1783

$6800

Maria Van Wyk, Dutch Darning Sampler, Holland, 1762

$8400

1sold.gif Elizabeth Walton, Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1809

$

Dolly Warriner Silk Embroidery, Mary Balch School, Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1810

$18,500

1sold.gif Ann Davey Wells, England, 1785

$

1sold.gif Mary Wing, Braceby, Lincolnshire, England, 1845

$

Mary Woodruff, Miss Barton’s School, Elizabeth Town, New Jersey, 1835

$6500

Ann Wright, England, 1840

$3850

 

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