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Date1800s
Terms
- Needle Cases
- Cardboard
- Scrim
- Silk Fiber
- Thread
- United States
Dimensions7.61 × 5.08 × 7.61 cm (3 × 2 × 3 in.)
MarkingsLabel: "Made by my grandmother, Mrs. Silas Leonard of Augusta, Maine. Silas Leonard born in Raynham 1799, near Taunton."
Credit LineGift of Miss Alice Metcalf
Object numberPER1165.1
DescriptionCardboard foundation. Covered with a very fine natural colored scrim. Decorated on both covers with a flower spray in natural colors done in petit point with silk thread. The front cover has sprays of green leaves embroidered in the four corners.
