Excerpt from Furniture of Rural New England With Rare Pieces of the Pilgrim Century, Terry and Banjo Clocks, Hooked Rugs and Embroideries, Staffordshire and Lustre Ware, Sandwich Glass, Pewter: The Collection of Mrs. Charles P. Soden, Naples, Maine, Sold by Her Order We reserve for especial commendation the specimens of early Amer ican handicraft peculiar to a now vanished type - the demure needlewoman of our ancestors - and chiefly consisting of homespun and quilted cover lets and embroideries including a rare gros point table cover [no. An important quilted patchwork cover from Virginia [no. 347] acquired from the George H. Ketcham Collection, Toledo, and exhibited in the Toledo Museum and a hand-woven blue-and-white coverlet [no. 354] of New England work, circa 1840. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.