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Of square form, butternut and off white linen woven into a small check pattern, within a wide butternut and double off white band border. Two ends are hand hemmed, and two sides have slavage.
handkerchiefs
linen (material)
weaving
Handkerchief
Handkerchief
Embroidered cross-stitch on the corner of 1991.1761.1 reads: M P . The same for 1991.1761.2, though in an off white threa reads: H.B
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.1761.1,2
Unknown
19 1/4 x 19 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1761.1-2
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