Sold for:
$711
$711
Needlework Sampler, "Rebecca Phippen's Sampler Aged 12 Salem Oct 19th 1820," stitched with silk threads on a linen ground, with a pious verse over sawtooth bordered alphabets and a large basket of flowers flanked by pine trees and cornucopias issuing flowering vines, (toning, fading), 21 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. , in a later mitered wood frame. Note: Rebecca Phippen was born February 29, 1808, in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-03-04
