Connecticut Spring Antiques Show 2019
Needlework Fitch / Hall Coat of Arms - Price Upon Request
Stephen & Carol Huber Old Saybrook, CT 860-388-6809 Hubers@AntiqueSamplers.com www.antiquesamplers.com/ STEPHEN & CAROL HUBER, Old Saybrook, Conn. — This needlework Fitch / Hall coat of arms, work coat of arms was most likely worked by one of the daughters of Governor Thomas Fitch of Connecticut and his wife Hannah Hall at the Misses Cuming school in Boston, circa 1770. It was discovered by Cap-tain Nicholas Johnson, of Newburyport, in the captain’s cabin of a deserted ship off the coast of New England, circa 1773, and descended to his great-granddaughter Mar-garet W. Cushing who owned it circa 1920 when it was photographed and included in Bolton & Coe. It was next documented in a 1937 Boston needlework exhibition, as pic-tured in Girlhood Embroidery by Betty Ring. It was rediscovered by the Hubers in 1999. It is of silk, metallic thread and beads on black silk; 19½ by 19½ inches square sight. —www. antiquesamplers.com
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