A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, American, dated 1835, worked in green, blue, pink and brown silk threads in a variety of stitches with flowers above a wrought verse over a farmhouse surrounded by blossoming trees and a picket fence over the wrought identification "Wrought by Margaret A. Reed 1835"; the whole enclosed by a meandering flower and foliate border--24¾in. x 16¾in.

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A SILK-ON-LINEN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, American, dated 1835, worked in green, blue, pink and brown silk threads in a variety of stitches with flowers above a wrought verse over a farmhouse surrounded by blossoming trees and a picket fence over the wrought identification "Wrought by Margaret A. Reed 1835"; the whole enclosed by a meandering flower and foliate border--24¾in. x 16¾in.

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