$1,778
Webster Needlework Family Register and Four Family Related Items, "Wrought by Celia C. Webster in the year 1833 Aged 11," Greenwich, Massachusetts, wrought in silk threads on a linen ground, listing the vital statistics of Elijah L. Webster (b. September 20, 1792) and Celia Webster (b. September 20, 1789) and their four children, enclosed in a flowering vine, (toning), 17 x 16 in. in a period mahogany veneer frame; accompanied by a small needlework sampler by Elijah Webster's wife "Celia Chapin Wilbraham [Massachusetts] 1800," 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 in., in a later molded giltwood frame; two tintypes framed together of William Breckenridge and his wife Mary Webster, (the fourth child of Elijah and Celia); a book of the Genealogy of the Decendants of James Breakenridge, and a small strawwork dometop box, ht. 2 1/2, wd. 5 1/4 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2008-11-01
