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Lot 82
Antique Applique Quilt with Hillsborough History
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
This quilt belonged to Henry Calvin Stroud (1821-1865), who was the innkeeper of the Colonial Inn, and also served as 3rd Regiment Home Guards of the Confederate States Army, the quilt is 19th century with a repeating flowering vine motif, unmarked.

88 x 86 in.

By descent through the Stroud & Jordan families, NC.

The quilt is being offered for the first time of sale through direct family descent. Purportedly this quilt was traded during the Civil War for a wool blanket to another soldier.

Fair condition with losses and replaced fabrics; staining.