Archive of Past Sales

This is a curated selection of samplers that we have previously sold. Along with our Catalogue Archive, this represents a quality scope of material to be enjoyed and to educate.

Margaret Jane Arbuckle, Mary Tidball School,

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1847
Mary Coffin, Newburyport,

Massachusetts, 1801
Provenance: Ralph O. Esmerian Collection
Lydia Burrill, Salem,

Massachusetts, circa 1800
Susan H. Munson, “Potosi”,

New York or New Jersey, 1824
Mary D’Silver, Negro School,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1793
Hannah Davis, Roxbury,

Massachusetts, 1805
Kiziah Sharp, Medford,

Burlington County, New Jersey, 1825
Jane McCulloch,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1772
Agness and Catharine Tweedie,

Kirkby MacPherson, teacher,
Leith, Scotland, 1812
Ann Simmons, Ann Marsh School,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1792
Jane M. Huey, Mary Tidball School,

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1840
Catharine Louisa Cornell,

age 10, Allentown,
New Jersey, 1820
Jane Loxley, Philadelphia, 1776
Mary B. Gove,

Under the Instruction of Phebe H. Chase,
Weare, New Hampshire, 1827
Julia Ann Shorey,

Boston Female Asylum,
Boston, Massachusetts, 1806
Clarissa Emerson, Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1822
Sarah Otilia Ann Carver, Hagerstown, Maryland, 1833
Elizabeth Newsam

Massachusetts, 1753
New York African Free School Sampler

by Rosena Disery, 1820
Susannah Beninghove,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1791
Sally Pickman Turner

Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1806
Mary F. Wisler

Columbia, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, 1826
Margaret Laskey

school of Mary Zeller, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1795
Nancy Keazer, Bird and Basket Group,

Canterbury, New Hampshire, 1802
Sarah Ann Graffin

Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, 1839
Orpah P. Lewis

Chester County , Pennsylvania , 1825
Sarah Ralston Jones

Wilmington, Delaware, 1822
Dolly Sheller

Leah Galligher school, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1800
Charlotte Turner, Liberated African

Bathurst, Sierra Leone, dated 1831
Eleanor Jane Garner,

Carroll County, Maryland, circa 1848
Catharine Shimer, Mary Ralston School

Easton, Pennsylvania, 1829
Whitework Needle Lace Sampler,

Bavaria, Germany, circa 1780
Amanda Olmsted

Shaker, Union Village,
Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio, 1836
Mary Benezet Wood

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1817
Abigail Shearman

Newport, Rhode Island, 1764
Elizabeth Ballard

Boston, Massachusetts, 1762
Matilda Penrose,

Richland, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, 1834
Mary Abel

Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania, 1820
Nabby Fitch, Norwich,

Connecticut, 1766
Provenance: Collection of Susan B. Swan
Published: Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery,
Susan B. Swan, Plain & Fancy 
Abigail Davis

Gloucester County, New Jersey, 1820
Cornelia Stryker

Rocky Hill, Somerset Co., New Jersey , 1823
Elizabeth Ann Caughy, “Busy Yard Sampler”

 Baltimore, Maryland, 1827
 
Sarah White,

Hebron, Washington County,
New York, 1841
Juliet Eliza Sollers

Baltimore, Maryland, 1814
Gentlefolk in a Pastoral Setting

Silk Embroidery, New England,  circa 1800
Nancy B. Whitcomb

Stockbridge, Vermont, 1823
Martha Ryan

Sharon, New Hampshire, circa 1820
Apple Tree Family Register Sampler

 
Important Chester County Sampler

Pennsylvania, 1795
Martha Atkinson

 England, 1662
Harriet Armold

Reading, Pennsylvania, 1828
Susan Springer,

Maytown, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, 1831
Double Memorial sampler

Smith and Humphreys family,
Miss Field’s School, Boston, Mass., circa 1815
Fanny Wyman

Danvers, Massachusetts, 1799
Lois Killam

Boxford, Massachusetts, circa 1820
Mary Ann Crown

Middletown, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania, 1836