Sampler Lorinda Dike, 1834
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Property of various owners
An American silk and linen needlework memorial sampler
Lorinda Dike
Medford, Massachusetts
dated 1834
Cartouche inscribed Lorinda Dike, Wrought when 10 years of age. Medford. Oct 1834, over alphabets, verse and garden with urn initialed PW, within a floral border.
sight 16 x 17 1/4in (40.5 x 44cm)
Sold for US$ 2,562 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Lorinda Dike, born May 4, 1824 in Stoneham, Massachusetts was the youngest daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth [Wiley] Dike. She married Edward W. Bladin and had children Abbie, Charles A., and Lizzie. The initials PW on the urn probably refer to Lorinda's maternal grandmother Priscilla Willey.

    Literature:
    William Richard Cutter, editor, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs..., Volume 2, New York, 1908, p. 653

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