Sold for:
$385
$385
Needlework Sampler, "Elizabeth Elsdon worked this in the 10 year of her age January the 18 1801," probably England, worked in silk threads on a linen ground, with rows of alphabets, initials of relatives, and a pious verse over houses and buildings, flowers, birds, trees, animals, and crowns, (minor losses, repair, toning), 16 1/2 x 12 1/4 in. Several small spots of losses probably from insects, mainly to lower half, approx. 1 x 1/2 in. area of crude repair to background below red brick house.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-03-07
