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    Sale 7433

    Costume Textiles and Quilts

    London, South Kensington

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    3 December 1996

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    Lot 144

    An unusual appliqué coverlet applied with masks, primitive style figures, hands, chickens, dogs and other animals, surrounded with abstract shapes in printed cottons, on a pieced white cotton ground--86 x 96in. (215 x 240cm.), cottons dating from the mid 19th century, coverlet late 19th/early 20th century

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    GBP 483

    Estimate

    GBP 300 - GBP 500

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    An unusual appliqué coverlet applied with masks, primitive style figures, hands, chickens, dogs and other animals, surrounded with abstract shapes in printed cottons, on a pieced white cotton ground--86 x 96in. (215 x 240cm.), cottons dating from the mid 19th century, coverlet late 19th/early 20th century

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