great-white-fleet-souvenir-needlework-circa-1909
Lot 367
Great White Fleet Souvenir Needlework, circa 1909
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Commemorative needlework with a spread winged eagle under a streamer reading "In remembrance of my cruise / China Japan and Philippine Islands," below a shield shaped frame with an inset photograph of an unidentified Marine; with the Imperial flags of Japan, Germany, Russia, France, Great Britain, Italy, China, Austria/Hungary flanking a stuffed life preserver framing a pre-dreadnaught ship with billowing smoke; elaborately embroidered with silk and metallic threads on a blue silk ground.

29.5 x 20 in.

Some wear to preserver, fading, fraying to edges.

$300 - 600