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

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Lot 1364

HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER

Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Starting Bid
$400

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HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, silk on linen, top half featuring three strawberry motifs above four alphabet and numeral rows segmented by horizontal bands of decorative stitching, below signed "Catharine Rea Bland bo'n Mar 14 1815", lower half with an eight-line verse, bottom edge with "HILLS BOROUGH" in dark-colored thread. Housed under glass in a modern frame, back edge with MESDA label indicating it was photographed and recorded on 11/15/2017. Circa 1825. 9 5/8" x 14 3/8" sight, 13 5/8" x 18 3/8" OA.
Published: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) object database, photo no. S-29944 / D-33184.
Catalogue Note: Identified as Catherine [Catharine] Rea Bland who was born on March 14, 1815 in Raleigh, Wake Co., NC to parents Joseph Henry Bland (1785-1861) and Mary Ann Rea [Ray / May?] (1793-1850). Her parents married on February 17, 1810 in Wake Co., NC, and the couple had a total of nine children. The family resided in Orange Co. from 1820 until at least 1840, where Catherine completed this sampler, possibly attending Hillsborough Female Seminary. She never married and continued to live with family members.
By 1850, the Blands moved to Alabama, being recorded in that year's U.S. Census for Marion, Perry Co. in dwelling no. 85, family no. 86. Catherine was listed as a teacher in both the 1860 U.S. Census for Perry Co., AL and the 1870 U.S. Census for Choctaw Co., MS. She remained in Mississippi until her death in February of 1915 and is buried at Spring Hill Cemetery in Spring Hill, Lafayette Co., MS.

Condition

Very good visual condition with at least one small repaired hole near lower proper left corner, thread having overall fading / fugitive color with later-added dye or pigment throughout the sampler, possibly one or a few minor losses to thread, frame with minor wear and surface scratches. Not examined out of frame.

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