Reading, Pennsylvania silk on linen sampler, dat

HARRIET EMELIA BICKING (1813-1894), PENNSYLVANIA NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, silk on linen, featuring three rows of letters above a four-line verse and inscription "1827 / Harriet Emelia / Bicking's Sampler /

HONEY BROOK, CHESTER CO., PENNSYLVANIA PICTORIAL NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, silk on linen, top center signed "Sarah Stanley Brown / Born July 16 18" bordered by a floral garland and flanked by bird motifs ov

Most likely Pennsylvania, silk on linen. Alphabets, verses, birds and a house with fence and trellis. "Bethlem 1833" (sic), and "S.M. Parmelee, Sarah M. Parmelee Wrought this sampler Sept. 1833, Aged

Attributed to Pennsylvania, silk on linen. Alphabets, baskets of flowers and a house with two spires. "Mary Mellon, 1829" with initials. Minor stains. Framed, 21"h. 21"w.

LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA ATTRIBUTED PICTORIAL NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, silk on linen, top with four-row verse from a religious hymn, surrounded by various motifs including flowers, butterflies, and baskets,

Catherine Esbenshade, Lancaster County, PA, 1822, silk on linen. Large sampler, with a central verse, surrounded by an eagle and flowers, and with the family record below. In a period frame, 29" high,

Three (3) samplers, most likely American, including Connecticut and Pennsylvania, all silk on linen. 1st item: Lydia G. Satterlee Connecticut needlework sampler containing 3 alphabets and numbers, her

MID-ATLANTIC, POSSIBLY PENNSYLVANIA, PICTORIAL NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, silk and wool on linen, featuring large brick building, possibly a schoolhouse, in a landscape, oversized flower baskets, flowering v

Sampler British 18th/19th century Silk on linen canvas, signed Hannah Marie, an elaborate floral border frames there alphabet typography examples, with a central text panel reading "the grass whereth

Pennsylvania needlework pictorial sampler made by Sarah Roberts (b. circa 1795), silk on linen. Geometric and foliate borders enclosing two birds facing one another, surrounded by flowering urns and o

Four (4) East Tennessee Regional Textile items, including Irish sampler. 1st item: 19th century Irish school girl verse sampler made by Jane Vance. Silk on dark linen with verse reading "Remember now

Massachusetts School Girl Sampler made by Emily Sparhawk (Perry) (1813-1894), silk on linen, having rows of alphabet letters, numerals, and other decorative images above a poem reading "Religion shoul

PENNSYLVANIA SAMPLER BY SUSANNA SALMON, DATED 1805Executed by Susanna Salmon, "aged 13 years finished my work July 29 in the year of our lord 1805". Worked with silk threads on a linen ground depictin

Pennsylvania Sampler - Frederica S. Manold, Reading 1831, age 11, linen background with verse, central pansy arrangement flanked by two butterflies, rose and vine border accented by ruched fabric bord

English silk on linen sampler, dated 1839, wrought by Ann Danby, with potted thistles and butterflies, 17'' x 12 1/4''. Competitive In-House shipping is available for this lot.

Silk on linen sampler wrought by Ruth Law, , with ABC's, family names, house and trees, in Big Chicques, probably Lancaster County, PA. 17.5" x 16" ss / 20.5" x 19.5" oa

By Alice Bradburn, dated January 20th, 1818 Overall: 16-3/4"h x 18-1/2"w Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, Private Collection

Silk on linen sampler with verse, wrought by Susanna Evans 1824, with birds, flowers, animals and vine border. 21" x 18.5" ss / 24.5" x 21.25" oa

Silk on linen sampler wrought by Jane W. Roddey, done in 1832, born 1814 with ABC's. 18" x 19" oa

Wrought in several different bands of needlework ABC's and numbers, needlework displayed on another linen-like backdrop, signed Martha Maria Bainbridge, needlework measures 16 x 14'', modern frame mea

Silk on linen sampler with A,B,Cs and verse, dated 1833, wrought by Martha Sarah Drakford, 16 3/4" x 16 3/4" (overall)

Bourbon County, Kentucky House Sampler attributed to Martha "Patsy" Hook, c. 1815. Silk on linen sampler featuring a strawberry border enclosing three alphabets, a basket of flowers, and a verse surro

British, 19th century, each silk on linen sampler with verse within floral border: one signed "Alleis Calveart...1801", Adam and Eve below the Tree of Knowledge, birds, floral urns, and trees, sight 1

A clean and complete marking sampler by Elisa I Strong of Bridport, Vermont, c. 1825. Probably her first attempt at needlework, this silk on linen sampler Elisa’s name and town, 3 complete alpha