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Early American Sampler

Schuamcher Merrifield Sampler 20" Pillow in Document
By Schumacher
Located in New York, NY
our studio and inspired by early American samplers, this embroidered design is animated by charming
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Pillows and Throws

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Wood

Antique Eye Dazzler Navajo Sampler Rug, Modern Southwest Meets Luxury Lodge
By Navajo
Located in Dallas, TX
78627 Antique Eye Dazzler Navajo Sampler Rug, 01'06 x 03'02. Modern Southwest style meets luxury
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Early 20th Century American Navajo North and South American Rugs

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Wool

Early 20th Century Handmade Persian Sampler Mahal Throw Rug
Located in New York, NY
An antique Persian Wagireh (Sampler) Mahal throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. This
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Early 20th Century Persian Rustic Persian Rugs

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Wool

American framed needle work sampler by Seraphina Learned, 1800's
Located in Kenilworth, IL
American sampler of silk floss on linen with a modest zig-zag border framing an uppercase letter
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Antique Early 18th Century American Folk Art Tapestries

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Linen, Silk

American Sampler Under Glass with the Original Gilt Birdseye Maple Frame, C 1820
Located in Hollywood, SC
American sampler under glass with the original gilt Birdseye maple molded edge frame, Early 19th
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Antique 1820s American American Empire Decorative Art

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Glass, Birdseye Maple, Giltwood, Linen

American Sampler Under Glass with the Original Gilt Birdseye Maple Frame, C 1830
Located in Hollywood, SC
American sampler under glass with the original gilt Birdseye maple frame, Early 19th Century
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Antique 1830s American American Empire Decorative Art

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Linen, Glass, Birdseye Maple, Giltwood

Collection of Four Navajo Sampler Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This collection of mini Navajo weaving children's or sampler weaving pillows.The further most right
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Early 20th Century North American Adirondack Pillows and Throws

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Wool

Equipoise (A State of Equilibrium) - Architectural Imagery, Oil on Panel, Framed
By Carol Pylant
Located in Chicago, IL
intertwined fish. The facial features of this grotesque pair resemble those of the earlier fountain of
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Mid-20th Century Handmade Persian Wagireh Hamadan Throw Rug
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Persian Wagireh (sampler rug) Hamadan throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with
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Mid-20th Century Persian Rustic Persian Rugs

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Wool, Cotton

Jim Shaw - Stocks Painting - Signed and Dated Oil on Canvas
By Jim Shaw
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
, New York Famous as a collector of American junk, including a trove of thrift store paintings once
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

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Antique Moroccan Moorish Silk Textile Tapestry Wall Hanging Hiti Ottoman voided silk velvet wall covering. Silk velvet cut designs, light browns, yellow, cream and blue, the panel co...
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Early 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Tapestries

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Pair of 1940's Style Classic Club or Lounge Chairs in Grey Shearling
By Fritz Hansen
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Vintage Eye Dazzler Navajo Rug
Located in Dallas, TX
77867 Vintage Navajo Eye Dazzler Rug, 02'09 x 03'11. Eye Dazzler Navajo rugs are intricate textiles crafted by the Navajo people of the Southwestern United States, characterized by t...
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Mid-20th Century American Navajo North and South American Rugs

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Wool

18th Century Antique Indian Medieval Tapestry after the Battle of Karnal in 1739
Located in Dallas, TX
74417 18th Century Antique Indian Medieval Wall Tapestry after the Battle of Karnal in 1739. This beautiful antique Indian painted tapestry is done on a canvas. It features a huntin...
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Antique 18th Century British Indian Ocean Territory Medieval Tapestries

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Antique Ganado Navajo Rug, Southwest Modern Desert Meets Contemporary Santa Fe
By Navajo
Located in Dallas, TX
78626 Antique Ganado Navajo Rug, 02'04 x 03'06. Modern Southwest style meets luxury lodge in this handwoven Native American Navajo rug. The eye-catching Ganado design and earthy colo...
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Early 20th Century American Navajo North and South American Rugs

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Wool

Antique French Faux Bamboo Pinewood Set, Bed with Nightstand / Bedside Cabinet
Located in Lisse, NL
Handmade French country bed with matching night stand made from pine and beechwood. If you like this bedroom set, as much as we do then you will love our price. Especially, since p...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Romantic Beds and Bed Frames

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Faux Bamboo

Pair of 19th Century Austrian Pine Beds with Brass, Inlay
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Pair of 19th century Austrian Pine Beds with Brass Inlay 62 H x 87 L x 42 W/ 29 Top of Mattress/36 Height to Foot Board.
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Antique 19th Century Austrian Beds and Bed Frames

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Brass

Antique Navajo Carpet, Folk Rug, Handmade Wool, Beige, Gray, Orange
Located in Port Washington, NY
Navajo rugs and blankets are textiles produced by Navajo people of the four corners area of the United States. Navajo textiles are highly regarded and have been sought after as trade...
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Early 20th Century American Navajo Rugs

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Wool

Large Antique Coromandel or Kuancai Lacquer Screen Six Panel Chinese Export
Located in Richmond, London
A superbly decorative six-panel lacquered 'Coromandel' screen, exquisitely carved and hand-painted with oriental figures, flowers and exotic beasts on a dark brown background, in the...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Screens and Room Dividers

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Wood, Lacquer

19thc Original Salmon & Decorated Pennsylvania Blanket Chest
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a amazing untouched 19thc original paint decorated blanket chest is a small scale size.Wonderful as a coffee table or end of a bed for quilts & blankets.The condition is very...
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Antique 19th Century American Adirondack Blanket Chests

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Pine

Indigo African Asian Bohemian Embroidery Tapestry Elephants Horses Kings
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Beautiful wall art, wall hanging, tattered and very old, origin unknown.
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Antique 19th Century Unknown Folk Art Tapestries

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Fabric

Antique French Aubusson Verdure Tapestry, Landscape Scene Wall Hanging
Located in Dallas, TX
76928 Late 19th-Century Antique French Aubusson Verdure Tapestry, Landscape Scene Wall Hanging. This hand-woven silk and wool late 19th-century antique French Aubusson verdure tapest...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Renaissance Western European Rugs

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Wool, Silk

French Needlepoint & Painted Prie Dieu
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A French prie dieu upholstered in colorful needlepoint. This painted prie dieu has a shaped back with a cross and turned spindle designs. The top has a needlepoint upholstery allowin...
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Antique 19th Century French Other Benches

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Upholstery, Wood, Paint

French Needlepoint & Painted Prie Dieu
French Needlepoint & Painted Prie Dieu
H 34.5 in W 19 in D 18.5 in
Magnus Stephensen Lounge Chair in Dark Stained Beechwood by Fritz Hansen
By Fritz Hansen, Magnus Stephensen
Located in Valby, 84
Rare Magnus Stephensen lounge chair in dark stained beechwood by Fritz Hansen in the 1940s. The chair is in good condition with a beautiful patina and ready to be taking in use, t...
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Vintage 1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Lounge Chairs

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Beech, Bentwood

Antique Renaissance Revival Walnut, Burl & Needlepoint Parlor Chairs, c1890
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique pair of Renaissance Revival parlor chairs offers walnut and burl construction with carved crest having foliate elements and surmounting floral needlepoint back and seat, r...
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Antique 19th Century European Renaissance Revival Side Chairs

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Upholstery, Walnut, Burl

Antique Navajo Carpet, Folk Rug, Handmade Wool Rug, Beige, Gray, Brown
Located in Port Washington, NY
Navajo rugs and blankets are textiles produced by Navajo people of the four corners area of the United States. Navajo textiles are highly regarded and have been sought after as trade...
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Early 20th Century American Navajo Rugs

Materials

Wool

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Early American Sampler From Newark New Jersey
Located in Santa Rosa, CA
Beautiful American Sampler
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Antique 19th Century American More Folk Art

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Fabric

11 Antique Germantown Navajo Indian Sampler Rugs
By Native American Art
Located in Tulsa, OK
This is an amazing collection of 11 antique Germantown wool, Indian rug samplers. These are
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Early 20th Century American Navajo Quilts and Blankets

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Wool

19th C American Fire Screen With Sampler
Located in Santa Rosa, CA
Beautiful carved wood and parcel gilt American pole screen with earlier sampler by Lucinda
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Antique 19th Century American Screens and Room Dividers

Cambridge, Massachusetts Sampler Dated 1824
Located in Philadelphia, PA
England sampler made in 1824 by Mary Ann Coolidge of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The scene along the bottom
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Antique 1820s American Folk Art Quilts and Blankets

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Linen, Silk

Early 19th Century Schoolgirl Needlework, likely from Newburyport, Massachusetts
By Elizabeth Page
Located in Andover, MA
This North Shore needlework sampler done by twelve year old Elizabeth Page, born circa 1791 in
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Antique Early 1800s American American Colonial Decorative Art

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Linen, Silk

Excellent Early 19th Century Delaware Valley Silk Embroidery
Located in Philadelphia, PA
American schoolgirls in the Federal period worked stunning silk embroidered pictures that would
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Antique 19th Century American Decorative Art

Early 19th Century English Sampler by Betty Dent, Aged 8
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Early 19th century English sampler by Betty Dent, Aged 8. " If I am right, thy grace impart, still
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Antique 19th Century English Decorative Art

Materials

Textile

Mary Brown's Sampler
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
. Even when using artifacts from earlier centuries, my theme is almost always about contemporary America
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Late 17th Century Framed Sampler by Elizabeth Fade, Aged 11
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
A charming small sampler with rows of flowers in various stitches, late 17th century. "Elizabeth
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Antique Late 17th Century Decorative Art

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Fabric

34 STAR AMERICAN FLAG, 1861-63, CIVIL WAR PERIOD
Located in York County, PA
: 34 star American national flag with large stars that are beautifully appliqued on a
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Antique 19th Century American Political and Patriotic Memorabilia

Eternal Spring - Open Air Courtyard with Early Spring Landscape Oil Painting
By Carol Pylant
Located in Chicago, IL
1995 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH 1994 Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Japanese Unique Antique Album of 19th Century Fabric Samples, 28 Pages
Located in South Burlington, VT
from Okinawa and each sampler annotated with great detail. The connected accordion style pages are
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture

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Silk, Cotton

Jack Boynton Surreal Painting Texas "Back Stretch"
By Jack Boynton
Located in Houston, TX
Institute of American Art; Prize 1962 San Francisco Annual, 1968 Beaumont Art Museum, Oklahoma City Art
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1970s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil Pastel

32 Star Minnesota Statehood, 1858-1859 Press Dyed Flag
Located in York County, PA
shortest lived flags in early America. This particular 32 star flag is of a peculiar type, thought to
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Antique 1850s Political and Patriotic Memorabilia

Vintage Navajo Pictorial Sampler Weaving - " Freemasonry" - circa 1920
Located in Denver, CO
A scarce Navajo pictorial "sampler" style weaving with the masonic logo consisting of a
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Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Objects

Materials

Wool

Early Navajo Indian Eye Dazzler Weaving Pillow
By Navajo Indian Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
pattern that is a out side looking in pattern. This is a early example of a Ganado sampler. The condition
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Early 20th Century American Native American Objects

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Down, Wool

Early Navajo Indian Weaving Eye Dazzler Pillow
By Navajo Indian Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a real beauty with a seeing eye center and jagged sawtooth points. This Navajo sampler
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Vintage 1910s American Navajo Native American Objects

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Wool

Kiki Smith "Sampler" Original Letterpress with Ink and Foil Additions c.2007
By Kiki Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Kiki Smith "Sampler" Original Letterpress with Ink and Foil Additions c.2007 Rare print by Kiki
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21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Prints

Materials

Color

"Still Life & Penck, II" Modernist Houston Artist Richard Stout EXTENSIVE BIO.
By Richard Stout
Located in San Antonio, TX
- Contemporary American Art, sponsored by U.S. Department of Commerce, toured Australia 1973 - "Three Americans
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Paintings

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Watercolor, Monoprint

Desert Flower, Mexico
By Eve Peri
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
COLLECTIONS Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery
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1930s Art Deco Mixed Media

Materials

Raw Linen, Yarn

Rooster ( Mexico embroidery fabric art)
By Eve Peri
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
COLLECTIONS Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery
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1930s Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric

Early 19th Century Schoolgirl Sampler, probably American
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This charming little sampler displays a most appropriate aphorism: “Even a child is known by his
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Antique 19th Century American Folk Art Quilts and Blankets

Quaker Westtown School Sampler, American, 1815
Located in Philadelphia, PA
discovered sampler made at the Westown School in Chester County, Pennsylvania. This large and beautifully
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Antique 19th Century American Quilts and Blankets

1739 Dutch Sampler
Located in Philadelphia, PA
small V. While English and American samplers from early periods tend to be vertical in shape, Friesian
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Dutch Decorative Art

1739 Dutch Sampler
1739 Dutch Sampler
H 14 in W 24 in
Important Philadelphia Sampler dated 1792
Located in Philadelphia, PA
EMBROIDERY: AMERICAN SAMPLERS & PICTORIAL NEEDLEWORK 1650 – 1850 (Knopf 1993), in a section entitled
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art

English Needlework Sampler dated 1768
Located in Philadelphia, PA
We very rarely encounter a sampler, English or American, which is unlike any other known example
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Decorative Art

Outstanding 1820 New Jersey Sampler
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The maker of this outstanding sampler was Catharine Louisa Cornell, a young lady from a highly
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Antique 19th Century American Quilts and Blankets

Pictorial Philadelphia Sampler, circa 1830
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This excellent sampler is representative of an important group of samplers made by schoolgirls in
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Antique 19th Century American Quilts and Blankets

Excellent Pennsylvania Sampler Dated 1827
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Ann Flack’s sampler is an outstanding example of the many appealing and folky Pennsylvania samplers
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Antique 1820s American Folk Art Quilts and Blankets

Important 18th Century Salem, Massachusetts Sampler
Located in Philadelphia, PA
for many decades, and samplers that feature this work are among the most sought after of all American
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Antique Late 18th Century American Folk Art Quilts and Blankets

Materials

Silk

Important English Sampler dated 1772 by Ann Hollensbee
Located in Philadelphia, PA
, American and English samplers, as well as furniture, porcelain and paintings. She was born in 1863 and died
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Quilts and Blankets

1839 Folk Art Sampler Featuring an Eagle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Very occasionally, schoolgirls worked samplers featuring American eagles and these are considered
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Antique 19th Century American Outsider and Self Taught Art

1809 Westtown School Sampler by Eliza Matthews
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This outstanding sampler was worked at the Westtown Boarding School, the historic American Quaker
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Antique 19th Century American Decorative Art

"Manhattan Isle" New York Sampler dated 1810
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The Skaats family was prominent within the early Dutch community of New York City, a thriving
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Antique 1810s American Folk Art Quilts and Blankets

Materials

Silk

New Hampshire Folk Art Sampler dated 1831
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The Odiorne family in America originated with John Odiorne (1627-1707) who was born in England and
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Antique 19th Century American Quilts and Blankets

Outstanding and Important Newburyport, Mass. Sampler, dated 1801
Located in Philadelphia, PA
a graphic pink and black sawtooth border. The sampler was published in American Radiance: The
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Antique 19th Century American Quilts and Blankets

1818 New Hampshire Sampler on Green Linsey Woolsey
Located in Philadelphia, PA
tradition of making linsey-woolsey samplers in the early decades of the 19th century. Finely worked letters
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Antique 19th Century American Decorative Art

American Silk Embroidery of a Basket of Flowers, circa 1835
Located in Philadelphia, PA
stem adds a note of animation to it as well. The early 19th century saw great interest
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Antique 19th Century American Decorative Art

Jim Bloom | "Homo Jocko", 2009 | Outsider Artist
Located in Wyomissing, PA
, who Bloom says impacted him early on with a sense freedom and boldness of expression which he extends
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21st Century and Contemporary Outsider and Self Taught Art

Materials

Acrylic, Mixed Media, Canvas

Print-work Silk Embroidery, Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1818
Located in Philadelphia, PA
and was married in Newport in 1795 to Sally Shaw (1776-1805). The book, American Silversmiths and
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Antique 19th Century American Decorative Art

Early American School Girl Sampler by Alice Roberts, 1841-Family and Dogs
Located in Plymouth, MA
Nice American school girl sampler dated 1841 by Alice Roberts found in a Hingham, Ma. home. Floral
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Antique 1840s American Folk Art Antiquities

Materials

Thread

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Early American Sampler For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the early American sampler you’re looking for. Each early American sampler for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using fabric, wool and linen. If you’re shopping for an early American sampler, we have 7 options in-stock, while there are 1 modern editions to choose from as well. Your living room may not be complete without an early American sampler — find older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. When you’re browsing for the right early American sampler, those designed in folk art and modern styles are of considerable interest. Navajo and Schumacher each produced at least one beautiful early American sampler that is worth considering.

How Much is a Early American Sampler?

An early American sampler can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $3,125, while the lowest priced sells for $525 and the highest can go for as much as $30,000.