Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Slick silk symbols for sale


This silk wall hanging was listed for sale by Dominic Winter in Gloucestershire. It dates from around 1870 and the catalogue description reads:

A printed silk wall hanging, circa 1870s, 
depicting Adam & Eve, a beehive, a scythe, an hourglass, and various other Masonic symbols, colour blocked in green, yellow, pink, and mauve, on a blue and white ground, lined with pale blue silk, and with hand-stitched pink border, some light staining and minor edge-fraying, 81 x 68.5cm (24 x 27ins) 

It had an estimate of £70-100.

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