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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