Holiday Gift Guide

ALWAYS INTERESTED IN PURCHASING FINE NEEDLEWORK Forty Ferry Road ❖ Old Saybrook, Connecticut 06475 ❖ Tel: 860.388.6809 ❖ www.antiquesamplers.com ❖ hubers@antiquesamplers.com BETSEY SAWYER, Newbury, MA 1798 This charming sampler was most likley worked at AnnWaters School in Newbury, MA. Betsey was born August 24, 1785 and worked this sampler at age 13. This sampler is listed in Bolton &Coe. Silk on linen; 15½ x 12½ inches unframed. $12,500 MARIA, English c. 1820 Silk embroidery depicting “Maria” the jilted heroine in Laurence Stearns 1760s novel Sentimental JourneysThrough France and Italy. Silk and watercolor on silk; 16½ x 13¾ inches framed. $1,800 MARY LAMSON, Beverly, MA, c. 1803 Silk embroidered memorial to a younger brother, inscribed on glass “MARY LAMSON” and on monument “INMEMORY OF Jervis Lamson AE 6 Yrs:& 5 mo./1803---”. Silk, paint and ink on silk; 19 x 14¾ inches sight. $6,800 RECLINING LADY, England circa 1750 Eighteenth century canvas work picture depicting a reclining lady in a bucolic wooded area with her dog, a young boy, rabbits in the foreground and birds in flight. In the background stands a cottage and a church. Silk and wool on linen; 20¾ x 16½ inches sight. $12,000