Lot 117: Sister’s Bertha and Stockings

Lot 117: Sister’s Bertha and Stockings

Finely woven cotton, light brown checkered pattern Bertha, with deep red fringe, hand sewn; Sister’s white cotton stockings, both initialed “CA” in green thread, and pinned with a paper tag “Mary Catherine Allen was an early Shaker (did not use the Mary) of Harvard”, also sewn tag “From the Harvard Shaker Colony”, Miss. Marian; (ex. Pat Hatch collection). 

Estimate: $300-500

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Hammer Price: $350.00