AN IROQUOIS BEADWORK PINCUSHION 19TH CENTURY

of shaped cushion form, the purple velvet face worked in clear and coloured glass beads with a dove among flowering branches, within a raised petal border of linked swags, the reverse with an old paper label inscribed Made by ladies of the U.S.A. and sold in aid of the dependants of soldiers killed in the Civil War. 25cm wide