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Maine Antique Digest, March 2015 37-C
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A schoolgirl sampler by Lucy Sumner Hartshorn Frank-
lin, dated 1818, with simple graphics and some mild
staining, sold for $230. Franklin (1805-1878) was born,
lived, and died in New London County, Connecticut.
The alphanumeric sampler by Ann E. Clark, dated 1845,
with strong colors and good graphics of a Federal home,
fruit tree, and a vine-covered arched trellis, went for
$632.50.
This is a hand-colored lithographed memorial to Colo-
nel Lewis Johnson, who died on February 13, 1849, and
according to the inscription, was born around 1799. I tried
without success to find out more about the late colonel. It
sold for $230.
The genealogical record sampler for the Holbrook fam-
ily, with the latest date appearing to be 1826, sold for
$172.50.
Age didn’t count for much on this dated 1796
sampler. The maker was named Abigail Wil-
liams, and the graphics were mostly a monochro-
matic light blue. Gamage managed to eke out
$115 for it.
This is a two-drawer blanket chest, decorated in grain paint,
simple and straight lined, with wooden knobs, two wide
boards forming the back, and a cutout bracket base. Even
the underside of the lid was painted. It made me wonder why
a pine blanket chest would be paint-decorated to look like
pine, but it was attractive, and so was the $201.25 price.
Two similar but not
identical photographs,
one of which was hand
colored, of Hyde family
members in cadet uni-
forms sold for $115.
A map of Virginia, Maryland, and part of New Jersey
from the 1676 edition of
The Theatre of the Empire of
Great Britaine
brought $1955.
An unsigned oil on canvas, possibly a romanticized White
Mountain scene, sold for $166.75.
A large pair of stylistically matching rect-
angular leaded stained-glass windows, circa
1890, mostly in swirling shades of blue, green,
and brown, pulled in $776.25. Photo courtesy
Bruce Gamage.
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