$770
Needlework Sampler, "Mary Tinsleys Sampler made in the year of our Lord 1827," Pennsylvania, worked in silk threads on a linen ground with rows of alphabets over a basket of flowers, flanked by the names of eight members of the Tinsley family and three pious verses, surrounded on three sides by undulating flowering vines; the backing paper affixed with a genealogy of the family which states Mary Tinsley was born in 1810, and was the daughter and probably oldest of seven children of Absalom and Margaret Tinsley, and that Mary and several family members are buried at Fairview Cemetery in Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania, (toning, fading, minor stains and losses), 16 1/4 x 17 in. (sight), in a later molded wood frame.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-03-04
