Five Centuries Day One | Wed 11th November | Lots 1 to 322

Five Centuries Day Two | Thurs 12th November | Lots 323 to 579

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<p>worked in silk on linen, with four alphabets and a number series and strawberry band, above a verse ‘A Desire to excel others in virtue is very commendable and a Delight in obtaining / Praise deserves Encourage-ment because it discovers an excellent Mind / But he is wicked who employs his Thoughts only to out going the worst in Villany / Such a Contention is diabolical’, signed ‘Mary Green Mead finish’d this Sampler May 30 1793 in the Eighth Year of her Age', within a meandering flower border</p>

GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER BY MARY GREEN MEAD

DATED 1793

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