Glorious 18th Century Crewelwork Embroidery Purse Fragment, Restored, with Conservation Report antique advertisment Opening is 2" x 2

Opening is 2" x 2 3/4"

clean and not at all detracting

Gumps is known as a purveyor of luxury goods from around the world

40 pages--31 filled front and back with bacteriology notes and drawings

and that terrific green dial

Glorious 18th Century Crewelwork Embroidery Purse Fragment, Restored, with Conservation Report antique advertisment Opening is 2" x 2To my eye and sensibilities, this is a gloriously beautiful thing, and among the most special textiles I've had in my possession. It is an 18th century crewelwork embroidery, wool on linen, which I believe was originally a purse. (At the end of photos is a photo of a 1986 page from Maine Antiques Digest documenting a similar crewelwork purse believed to have been owned by John Richardson of Townsend MA sold along with a small watercolor of a house for