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November 21, 2025: Fall Premier Americana: Day Two Featuring The Benny Long Collection

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  • Samplers / Needleworks
Lot 1363

GRANVILLE CO., NORTH CAROLINA NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
Starting Bid
$500

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GRANVILLE CO., NORTH CAROLINA NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, silk on linen, top half with three alphabet and numeral rows in addition to two scrolling vine bands, center having a two-line verse that reads, "Reasons whole pleasure all the Joys of sense / Lie in three words health peace and competence", lower half featuring a floral wreath vignette with signature of "Rachel . Minor / Granville County / North Carolina / Feb the 11th / [removed year; according to previous owner, the year was 1828]", flanked by three pictorial motifs of a bird and a flower basket on one side and a bird perched on a tree with a dog, or other animal, at the base on the other side, all encompassed by a wide floral vine border. Housed under glass in a later wooden frame, backing paper with MESDA label indicating it was photographed and recorded on 11/15/2017. Circa 1828. 17 1/2" x 17 5/8" sight, 20 1/2" x 20 5/8" OA.
Published: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) object database, photo no. D-33184, which reports the supposed removed year.
Literature: For another sampler made in Granville Co., NC by Sally F. Rowe, see ibid., photo no. S-9446.
Catalogue Note: Identified as Rachel Minor who was born on June 28, 1819 in Granville Co., North Carolina to parents of Randall Minor (1782-1838) and Martha "Patsy" Hunt (1784-1837). She had six siblings, most of whom she lived with as according to the U.S. 1850, 1860, and 1880 Census since Rachel never married. She and her siblings, Sally, Henrietta, David, and Joseph, were also recorded by the U.S. 1860 Census Slave Schedule for Oxford District, Granville Co., NC as owning a total of 15 enslaved people, both adults and children. Rachel died on August 7, 1896, and she did not have an executor, the court appointed H.M. Hester as administrator on August 20, 1896. The inventory of her estate records "1 Picture" but does not indicate a needlework or sampler.

Condition

Very good visual condition with light toning to linen mainly along edges, a few small holes having repairs mostly along center fold lines, some thread with typical fugitive color, some spots of later-added dye or pigment to thread mainly on pinks and yellows of motifs and floral wreath and large band, frame with wear and surface scratches, patch to upper corner. Not examined out of frame.

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