THE DERR FAMILY PIECED COTTON QUILTED COVERLET

SIGNED BY SARAH YOUNG, WEISSENBURG, LEHIGH COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, DATED 1852

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THE DERR FAMILY PIECED COTTON QUILTED COVERLET
Signed by Sarah Young, Weissenburg, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, dated 1852
Rectangular, and worked in thirty squares centering open abstracted calico wreaths, each centering a different name, against a cream colored ground, each wreath separated by cream-colored sashing, the whole with channel and serpentine quilting, self-bound, with plain cream cotton backing
84 x 98in.

Lot Essay

This quilt is inscribed in ink at its base, "Sarah Young.Weissenburg./Lehigh County, Pennsylvania/1852." Other names on the quilt include David Fisher, William Gerringer, Ester Helfrich, David Derr, Walter Shants, Elias Wetherhold, Sarah Young, Augusta Erie, Caroline E. Kramlick, Eliza A. Ebert, Mary Stallnecker, Charles H. Kramlick, John Bleiler, Daniel Young, Edwin F. Muthard, Jonas W. Kunkel, Agnes M. Kramlick, Rebecca A. Grim, Benawill Acker, Peter Dengier, Anjelina Fisher, Henry Kramlick, James Grim, Sarah Helfrich, George Knerr, Catherine Weighknecht, Amanda Weighknecht, Mary Ann Bliler, Agnes Helfrich, and William Stein.