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A George III wool sampler, Harriot Malthams(?) work aged 9 years 1815, with a central mansion flanked by butterflies, trees and dogs between further trees and a bird beneath Greek key and a verse, in trailing border, 39 x 42cm (framed) . One or two spots of foxing and some light time staining overall, the colours a little subdued and in some cases faded, rather tightly framed, the (probably 1930s) oak frame with trade label of The Horner Galleries, Sheffield

A George IV linen sampler, finely worked by Ellen Brownson 1821 with a verse, red brick house, pairs of birds and butterflies between baskets of flowers and sprays, in trailing border, 31 x 48cm. In generally excellent condition with apparently no holes, frayed threads or repair. The colours well preserved, a neatly worked sampler in what is probably the original but later black painted frame with worm damage. Label on the back boards inscribed Ellen Brownson the gift of her aunt A Bidden(?) May 1884

A Victorian Berlin woolwork sampler by Emma Jane Gillam aged 10 years 1846, with a lady and her spaniel seated on a garden bench before trees, in a border of trailing roses and other flowers, 41 x 50cm, bird's eye maple frame . The support with a large brown stained area extending to most of the subject, the colours a little faded but still reasonably attractive, the frame with a few edge knocks and the odd scratch here and there but in good overall condition

A Needlework Sampler, Mary Ann Mott, Aged 11 Years, 1825, worked with a shepherd and flock near a pond with wildfowl and a cottage over a ten line verse entitled "To my ever honour'd parents", flanked by thrushes on branches, butterflies and caskets with pyramids of fruits, over a recumbent hart, cornucopia, and "Mary Ann Mott, Aged 11 Years, 1825", with a carnation flower and bud waved border, {45. 5cm by 32cm}, in a period gilded frame with shells at the angles

An early Victorian needlework Sampler by Martha Fisher, dated 1839, with verse, etc in mahogany frame

A framed Alphabetic Sampler "Mary Frayzer", Leominster, June 26th 1787, 5 x 7in

A woolwork sampler with animal, insect, bird and decorative motifs, together with a tapestry frame holding a part completed tapestry.

A sampler dated 1799, the ivory ground with central biblical verse, with outer motif border, framed.

Miss Austin Carter (fl. 1862-1873) - "The Sampler" - Interior scene with forlorn looking young woman working a sampler, with work table and tapestry to background, 17ins x 12.75ins, signed with monogram, in contemporary gilt frame and glazed (bears original title and address label to back of frame)

A Victorian needlework sampler, 'Mary Anne Dalton, Her Work Aged 10 Years', with sentimental passage over floral spray within stylised foliate borders, faded, 40cm x 31.5cm; and an alphabet sampler, 'Mary Anne Inwood, 1864', also faded, 30cm x 19.5cm, each in modern frame, (2).

A Victorian needlework sampler, 'Mary Brown's work 1854', with sentimental passage over spray of flowers within repeating stylised rose trail border, 71cm x 68cm, unframed.

An attractive mid-19th century coloured silk needlework sampler titled ‘To my Mother’ by Honor Bishop, age 9 years, 1860 depicting houses, planted displays and animals, 172 x 12.5"

Victorian sampler by Sarah Powell dated 1852, with rows of letters and other ornament, 30 x 29cm.

Early 19th Century sampler by Christian Meldrum, 1812 with letter and numbers and crowns 15x19cm, also another sampler by Mary Tate 1838 42x19cm, the two framed as one.

Early Victorian sampler, worked by Isabella Knox, 1844, typically decorated with the alphabet and numbers above a band of peacocks, trees and a house, stained, framed, 41.5cm x 27cm

A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER worked with three flowering plants above a verse entitled "VIRTUE" ("Virtue's the chiefest beauty of the mind...."), "Mary Ann Rigg finished This work September 21st 1853", above five further flowering plants within a meandering border, 46cm x 38cm, (18in x 15in), in gilt slip and rosewood frame under glass

A GOOD EARLY VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, by "Sarah Schofield. Work 1846", stitched with a funereal verse ("Stoop down my thoughts that use to rise...") flanked by angel musicians, a flower, and a chalice and cross, above perching birds, a young girl seated in a landscape, a tan-and-white dog, in turn flanked by a vase of flowers and a church with shepherd and four sheep, above a large mill (with handwritten note of provenance verso from a descendant of Sarah Schofield, suggesting that the mill was based on an actual building in Rochdale, Lancashire), with birds flying above, a lawn with birds and cats below, and a verse "Let me die the death of the righteous...", flanked by two girls holding wreaths or baskets and a woman with bird beside her, both above flowers, within a berry border, the whole of especially good colour and condition, 59cm x 57cm (23.2in x 22.4in), in modern frame under glass

A RARE AND FINELY-WORKED REGENCY QUAKER NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER of oblong form with canted corners and of typically restrained character, worked in black thread on beige linen with a three-verse "hymn" in well-formed Roman lower-case lettering, signed "Deborah Smith/Ackworth/1814", 30.8cm x 20cm, (12.25in x 8in), inmodern gilt slip and ebonised frame, under glass.

A small 19c sampler worked by Mary E.Killcross, aged 12 and dated 1870, 20 cms. x 19 cms., framed and glazed together with a gilt framed oval picture of Queen Victoria[?].

A Victorian sampler by Elizabeth Atkinson, aged 21, 1850, with a figure in front of a house and a verse, 'When this you see remember me/and bear me in your mind/let all the world say what will/speak off (sic) me as you find' in a simulated rosewood frame, 70 x 72cm , together with a woolwork picture depicting parrots on flowering vines (2)

A Victorian needlework sampler decorated the alphabet and numerals by Elizabeth Wilson, 1834, 7 1/4in. x 9 3/4in., in ebonised frame.

A Victorian needlework sampler decorated the alphabet, shrubs and numerals, worked by Helen Bradley dated 1832, in simulated rosewood frame, 12 3/4in. x 12 1/2in.

A George III alphabet and number woolwork sampler by Harriet Holmes, 1811, 20cm x 30cm; one other 19th Century woolwork sampler, unsigned, and one other in red letters on white family tree sampler (3).

A George III alphabet and verse needlework sampler of small proportions, signed E Mercer, January 16th 1795, all housed in a maple frame, sampler size 10.5cm x 9.5cm .

A 19th Century needlepoint alphabet, number and patterned sampler signed Eliza Pearson (some losses), 30cm x 32cm; one other alphabet sampler Mildred Birkby 1911; one other alphabet and number sampler by Alice Smith, dated 1869 (3).

An early Victorian woolwork verse and picture sampler, by Hannah Frost, aged 10, dated 1842, (unframed), 40cm x 32cm.

A William IV Sampler, Mary Pulling, July 10th 1834 Aged 8 Years, decorated a verse, birds, animals, flowers and figures, within a meandering border, 41 x 31.5 cm.

An Early 19th Century Sampler, by Mary Mildred, aged 10, 1834, incorporating a child's evening prayer, cherubs, flowers and figures, Mary Mildred, (a.f.) 40 x 49 cm.

A Late Victorian Confirmation Sampler, John W Peel, confirmed April the 7th 1891, at Saint Cuthberts Church Bladon on Tyne, within a square border, 22.5 x 25.5 cm.

A silk needlework sampler performed by Mary Morris aged 11, 1843, depicting Adam and Eve, serpent, apple tree and text from Genesis, grained frame, 13in x 12in (33cm x 30cm)

Early Victorian Needlework Sampler, with central verse, surrounded by birds, colourful flowers and butterflies, within a geometric border and worked by M.W., Belfast and dated 1854, in a mahogany frame, 69cms, (27").

Victorian needlework Sampler of traditional alphabetical and verse form, worked by Sarah Anne Chambers - Pupil at Kimberley School and dated 1868, 31cms, (12") in a rosewood frame.

de Vries, L. Flowers of Delight, in jacket 1965; Little Wide-Awake, jacket, 1967; Haviland & Coughlan Yankee Doodle's Literary Sampler of Prose, Poetry & Pictures, jacket, 1974; another (4).

George IV silk sampler by Ann Knowles, April 1829, with verse and central floral basket bordered with birds, floral vases within a floral wavy border, glazed and oak framed, 19ins square

Victorian silk sampler by Charlott Mockford, Aged 11yrs, Bishopstone School 1855, including two alphabets, potted flowers, animals and birds, glazed and framed, 14ins by 12.5ins

William IV woollen sampler, by Eliza Smith Aged 8 and dated 1836, featuring an alphabet and verse above cottage and garden with dogs and potted flowers and trees, within a cloverleaf border, framed and glazed, 15ins by 17ins

An early Victorian needlework sampler, by Jane Cole, aged 8 years, worked with script, plants and geometric borders in blue, green and yellow, dated 1846, framed 13ins x 12.5ins

Three Medals, awarded to SGT George Hester, 12th Sqadron RAF, killed in action 1943, comprising 1939-45 Star, 1935-45 Medal and the Air Crew Europe Star, attached to a needlework sampler worked with the recipients details and together with a portrait photograph.

A woolwork sampler, on hessian backing dated 1838 worked with The Creed and other religious verses in three panels within stylised borders by Jane Williams Fachell, aged 14, 18" x 17.25" and a large woolwork sampler worked with a Welsh verse within a geometric border by Anne Moss, May 1879, 29.25" x 25.5" (2)

A gilt framed sampler, dated 1820, worked by Mary Edwards, Oswestry, aged 8, August 1820, in silk on a muslin backing with the alphabet, numerical sequences and a religious verse with floral borders, 10.5" x 10.5" and a sampler by Sarah Edwards, dated 1837, worked in black cross stitch and within a modern gilt frame, 5.5" x 8.5" (2)

A fine silkwork sampler, by Elizabeth Jones 'Her work aged 10 in the year 1840', worked in silk on muslin with a central castle and moat on which a man is fishing in his boat surrounded by various floral motifs, a deer, a windmill, a folly, fantastic birds, vases of flowers and surrounded by stylised floral borders, glass cracked

A FRAGMENT FROM A 19TH CENTURY SAMPLER with alphabet decoration, framed and a woolwork picture of a village scene with church, 7" x 17" and 8" x 5".

A CHILDS NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, by Susannah Stevenson 1822 with traditional verse decoration, 12" square.

A mid-19th century sampler with verse, alphabet, flowering shrubs, exotic birds, worked in coloured silks of greens, browns, by Isabella Jameson dated 1st June, 1843, 52cm. x 43cm., together with two smaller samplers of floral motifs, by the same hand, each 16cm. x 16cm.

An early 19th century petit-point needlework sampler with verse, urns and baskets of flowers, birds, lions and flowerheads, contained within a strawberry and flowerhead meander border, worked by Maryann Tucker, aged 7 years, dated Slapton 1836, 40 x 25cm.

19th CENTURY NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER BY ELIZABETH GIBSON DATED 1840, centered by a parrot surmounted by peacocks within a geometric border, the text, 'Our life is a journey full of care, no wealth from death can save...'. 43cm by 44cm

Framed Sampler "A.Jarold" No Date

A silk sampler dated 1800 with floral embroidery with Classical text.

Victorian framed sampler, by Fanny Broxton, 1887, embroidered with the Tree of Knowledge and serpent, figures, peacock and other plants and animals. 48 x 37cm, in oak frame; also an alphabet sampler by Emilia Mackney, Shrewsbury, aged 9 years. (2).

Rare William and Mary banded sampler, with bands of floral and geometric motifs and alphabets (each of 24 letters) in coloured silks on linen ground, the large alphabet in centre ending with the date 1692 and inscription at base "JEANE HIERS/SEPTEMBER/THE TWENTIETH/1692", 23in. 7.5in. 58.5cm. x 19cm. Evenly faded overall. Framed and glazed (glass broken).

An attractive and unusual George I English sampler, worked in coloured silks on linen with the 100th Psalm and numbers from 1 to 107 at base. In centre a large and colourful flower in satin stitch flanked by woven inscription: ELIZABETH MACKBETH [sic] HER WORK MADE IN THE YEAR 1722. 18in. x 8in. 46cm. x 20cm. Slight stains at places around edges. Framed and glazed.

Matilda Whawell, her early 19th century needlework sampler worked with the alphabet, numerals, lions and flowers above verses and flowers within a vine border, 50.5 x 32cm in rosewood frame.

Elizabeth Jane Pearce, her early Victorian needlework sampler worked with a verse to 'Friendship' amongst trees and flowers within a border of pink roses and the rosewood veneered frame, 42 x 41cm.

Mary Jane Lister, her silk and wool worked sampler of 1851 worked with verse 'On Charity' within flowers, birds and insects and a vine border, 42 x 32cm.

A Regency embroidered sampler, with a central floral ring, and cross paten pattern to the outside, dated A.D. 1812

AN EARLY VICTORIAN SAMPLER worked in coloured silks with alphabets, numbers, text, traditional motifs of flowering plants, trees, baskets etc., and "Mary Simpson born February 2" and "Mary Simpson work to the year 1837", with a border with cartouches, floral and foliate motifs. 21" x 21". Unframed.

AN UNFRAMED NEEDLEPOINT SAMPLER, by "Margaret Rees, aged 18 yors, 1834" (sic). 23" x 18".

A Victorian needlework alphabet sampler by 'Jane Jones, aged 13, 31 December 1868', with sentimental passage over stylised trees and shrubs. 50.5 x 40cm. Later F&G.

AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY SAMPLER worked in coloured wools, with alphabets, numbers, religious text and "Peace to the soul of Caroline the injured Queen of England", and "Ann Lovesgrove aged 6 years Anno Domini 1821", with a border. Framed and glazed. 10.25" x 9.75".

An early 19th century sampler by Jean Thomson, embroidered in coloured silks with a verse 'Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain..' with flowers, birds and stylised trees above a Georgian house with many windows, within a meandering floral border, 33 x 43cm (13 x 17in).