$1,200
Needlework Family Register, "Mary Ingalls aged 10 Wrought this work/Lynn [Massachusetts] August 26, 1814," stitched with silk threads on a linen ground depicting the vital statistics of Henry Ingalls and Susanna Brown who were married May 26, 1772, and their six children, over a pious verse, surrounded by a sawtooth border and with flowering vines issuing from cornucopia, (minor toning, fading, and stains, stitch losses to sawtooth borders), 18 1/4 x 16 1/4 in. (sight), in a period mahogany veneer frame.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-10-27