Fine and Rare Needlework Sampler, Mary LeFavour, Marblehead, Massachusetts, dated 1804

Worked in silk threads on a linsey-woolsey ground; signed Mary LeFavour her sampler worked in ye 13th year of her age 1804.

Bihler & Coger, Ashley Falls, Massachusetts

American Needlework Treasures: Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection of Betty Ring at the Museum of American Folk Art (p. 11, fig. 16); Tucson, Arizona, The University of Arizona Museum of Art: "First Flowers of Our Wilderness" February 29-March 28, 1976.

Frame not original.
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Mary LeFavour (1792- 1809) was the ninth child of John LeFavour (b .1753) and Lydia Orne (1755-1793) of Marblehead.