Property from the Brooklyn Museum | April 9, 2026
Thu, Apr 9, 2026 10:00AM EDT
Lot 501
Susquehanna Valley, Pennsylvania Needlework Sampler
Estimate: $500 - $700
Sold for
$1,600
Sold Price excludes BP
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
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| $0 | $25 |
| $100 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
signed and dated "Mary J Koenick wrought this in the 10th yr of her age AD 1818", with alphabets, a verse, roses flanking a bowl of strawberries bordered on three sides with bold trees, silk on linen, cross, satin, square eyelet, and crossed corner stitches, 18-1/2 x 17 in.; unframed
Provenance: 1932, gift of Margaret S. Bedell of Catskill, NY to the Brooklyn Museum; Property from the Brooklyn Museum
Note: Mary Koenick’s is a late example of the lively samplers worked in Lancaster, York, and Dauphin Counties beginning in the 1780s. (See Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery, II, pp. 410-416). Her verse was composed by Isaac Watts and based on Psalm 101.
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1932, gift of Margaret S. Bedell of Catskill, NY to the Brooklyn Museum; Property from the Brooklyn Museum
mild fading to embroidery, lacking stitches in left rose spray, linen corners frayed, nail holes along linen edges
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