Lot 148
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An unusual albumn quilt worked with various appliqué and pieced designs inclunding "Turkey Tracks", "Rose of Sharon", "Oak Leaves" and "Wild Goose Chase", each design inscribed and dated in ink [some indistinct], quilted with running feather asymmetrically across the field infilled with wave and hatching patterns--96 x 104in. (240 x 260cm.), circa 1846-9, American

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An unusual albumn quilt worked with various appliqué and pieced designs inclunding "Turkey Tracks", "Rose of Sharon", "Oak Leaves" and "Wild Goose Chase", each design inscribed and dated in ink [some indistinct], quilted with running feather asymmetrically across the field infilled with wave and hatching patterns--96 x 104in. (240 x 260cm.), circa 1846-9, American
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Lot Essay

Some of the decipherable names and places are as follows: Anne B. Kerr, Margaret A. Kerr, Susan E. Hair, Elizabeth Jackman, Mary P. Crouch, Ryette Creek [?], Jarissa Van Borrich [?], Amanda Fleming, Mariah Parson, Sarah E. Reace, S. A. Reed, Gd Village [?], Elizabeth Coloin, Ten Miles [?], Hannah More, Cincinatti [?].

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