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Lot 138
Antique Framed Needlework Sampler, English
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Worked in wool on loose ground, with alphabet rows to top above pious verse, with central cartouched with name and date, "Ann Waller / Work Aged 10 / April 26 / 1831," bottom register with pious verse and ground with symmetrically placed floral, tree, and bird motifs, all within a strawberry border.

SOA 20.75 x 18.5 in.

The Rosa Spence McDonald Collection, Wake County, North Carolina

Good estate condition; minor staining; some stitch loss; frame with some nicks; not examined out of frame.