Lot 151: Textiles and Photographs

Estimate: $500 – $700
Price Realized: $885

Three Sister’s neckerchiefs, blue and white checkerboard plaids, two initialed on homespun cotton, both inked script “Alice H” (Alice Howland, 1884-1973), Canterbury, NH; Cotton, light blue and white checkerboard pattern kerchief, with tag “Emeline Kimball…Canterbury, 1810-1876, For over 40 years she was the kind and efficient nurse”, initialed in pen “E. K.”; Carte-de-visite of Sister Mary Whitcher, WGC Kimball, Concord, NH, photographer; Photo postcard of Shaker Sisters, Bertha Lindsay, Miriam Wall, and Lillian Phelps, Canterbury, NH; Two folded envelopes “Shakers Transparent Court Plasters, Mount Lebanon”, one pink, the other light yellow, 3 3/4″ x 2 1/4″, (Note: handwritten in script at the bottom of yellow envelope “Good to mend bank notes.”; see From Shaker Lands & Shaker Hands, Miller, M. Stephen, p. 71).