Contentment Farm Antique Textiles & Vintage Clothing
1893 Chicago Worlds Fair Silk Hanky Landing of Columbus

1893 Chicago Worlds Fair Silk Hanky Landing of Columbus

This souvenir handkerchief commemorates the Landing of Columbus and was originally purchased at the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1893 by a member of a prominent family from Bennington, VT and Springfield, MA.

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ID'd 1840 Crochet & Ribbon Purse

A small strip of paper which was found inside indicate this purse dated to 1840 and belonged to Aunt Catherine.  From the Vail family of Bennington, VT and Springfield, MA.

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ID'd 1840 Crochet & Ribbon Purse

Antique Silk Maltese Lace Flounce or Collar

Antique Silk Maltese Lace Flounce or Collar

The fluid lines of this elaborate Maltese lace are a testament to the skills of the lace maker. Made of ecru silk in three sections that are joined together by hand.

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Vintage Hand Embroidered Dimensional Floral Silk Handkerchief

Three dimensional hand embroidered flowers and leaves grace this feminine silk hanky. The scalloped edges are hand bound with pink silk floss.

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Hand Embroidered Three Dimensional Floral Silk Handkerchief

Victorian Handmade Cluny Lace Yardage

Victorian Handmade Cluny Lace Yardage

A lovely handmade length of ecru cotton Cluny lace made for flouncing or trimming. In excellent, useable condition.

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Vintage Floral Printed Handkerchief Hand Rolled Hem

The soft yellow background of this vintage floral hanky sports a white chevron pattern with dots. White flowers with orange centers form a wreath around the scalloped border.

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Vintage Floral Printed Handkerchief Hand Rolled Hem

Hand Embroidered Chinese Sleeve Band

Antique Hand Embroidered Chinese Sleeve Band

Very fine hand embroidery graces the ivory silk of this uncut sleeve band. Featuring pagoda, bridges, mountains, birds and women in boats, the work is exquisite.

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Finely Detailed Vintage Cotton Floral Print Handkerchief

Featuring bouquets of lilies, daisies, irises and roses surrounding a central medallion with yellow background. The border is scalloped with paisley pattern that echoes the scalloping at the edge.

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Finely Detailed Cotton Floral Print Vintage Handkerchief

Gardenia Print Cotton Handkerchief

Vintage Gardenia Print Cotton Handkerchief

This vintage handkerchief features clusters of white gardenia's on a light grass green background. The outer border has a white fish scale or petal design, each with a small white forget me not type flower.

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Feminine Vintage Handkerchief Printed with Roses & Bows

Delicate floral swags encircle clusters of roses and a central ribbon bow in shades of red and pink with green leaves and blue forget me nots as accents.

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Feminine Handkerchief Printed with Roses & Bows

White Cosmos Printed Cotton Handkerchief

Vintage White Cosmos Print Cotton Handkerchief

Printed on an apple green background is a spray of white cosmos with lacy green leaves. The spray fills the hanky in a pleasing composition.

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Ferre Family Samplers with Family Bible

Samplers are always special items, a connection to the past, though many are difficult to trace. It is a pleasure to acquire pieces with a great deal of documented family history as these samplers have, including the 1815 Bible of the Ferre (Ferry) family of West Springfield, MA.

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Ferry Family Samplers with Family Bible

1830s Berlin Work Picture for Emily Porter

1830's Berlin Work Picture for Emily Porter

Made by Maria Pott of Pottsville, Pa., this needlework picture would have been made in the mid to late 1830s as a gift presented to Emily Porter.

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Early 19th Century Woolwork Memorial Picture in Original Frame

This beautiful wool work picture was made to commemorate a play based on The Sorrows of Young Werther, a loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774.

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Woolwork Memorial Picture The Sorrows of Werther

19th Century Needlework Picture

19th Century Needlework Tondo Small Child in Orchard

Absolutely Charming! That's the only way to describe this exquisite needlework picture of a young child sitting in an orchard. Exhibiting the skill of the maker, it is worked in silk thread on a silk ground with hand painted details.

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