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Lot 317
Framed Needlework Sampler, Ann Evans 1846
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Worked in wool and multi color wool and silk threads on loose ground, to include a reindeer motif to top center above a large floral register, with verse and Greek key motif above maker's name and date, presented in an early faux painted frame with gilt filet.

Sight size 23 x 15.5 in.; Frame dimensions 27.5 x 20.25 in.

Private Collection, Pinehurst, North Carolina

A few scattered small holes; thread loss; border loss; staining; frame with some loss. Not examined out of frame.