Fine Furniture & Collections - 7th October 2026
Lot 278
TWO EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLERS
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £229
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Description
TWO EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLERS
DATED '1843' AND '1849'
one worked by Mary Brown Borrows, titled 'On Friendship' and decorated with urns of flowers, grape pickers and Adam and Eve, signed 'Mary Brown Borrows Work Aged 16 Feby 11 1843 Mareham', together with a sampler by Mary Ann Baker aged 11, worked with a deers, peacocks, dogs and a religious verse, both in later glazed frames (2)
40.5 x 33cm and 42.2 x 32.2cm