Sold for:
$711
$711
Needlework Sampler, "HELEN WALLACE SEWED THIS SEMPLAR WITH MISS COOK IN THE YEAR 1852," stitched with wool yarns on a linen ground, with rows of alphabets, the names of Helen's parents, "My Father Robert Wallace" and "My Mother Helen Jackson," and monograms of several family members, over a register centered with a house flanked by trees, birds, a gate, a dog, and potted flowering plants, enclosed in a geometric flowering vine, 22 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. , in a period veneer frame with gilt liner.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-08-12
