463 East Lancaster Avenue
Downingtown, PA 19335
United States
Pook & Pook Inc. auction house was founded by Ronald and Debra Pook in 1984 out of the Pook’s thriving antique business, which they began a decade earlier. Located in Chester County, Pennsylvania, Pook & Pook, Inc.’s offices are approximately thirty-five minutes west of Philadelphia, in an old stone...Read more
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Jun 10, 2022
Lancaster, Pennsylvania silk on linen needlework sampler, dated 1808, inscribed Fannie Rine a daughter of Christian and Barbera Rine was born in the borough of Lancaster the 26th day of September, 1796 and made the sampler in Mrs. Armstrong's school A.D. 1808, with seated young girl and lamb under a willow tree, with floral vine border, 18" x 16 3/4". A sampler by Willamina Rine is in the Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York. Evidence strongly suggests the Fannie was the nickname of Willamina's older sister Veronica. For a similar example see Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroideries, page 421, fig. 468. Provenance: Purchased from Amy Finkel at the Folk Art Show in New York 2003.
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