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1920-1930
GUSN-24314
White linen hand towel w/ blue and white embroidered decoration at one end. Features a wreath at center flanked by continuous lines of scrolled foliate design. All in alternating blue and white. Hemmed top and bottom edge separated from main body by embroidered band.
towels
embroidering
linen (material)
wreaths (costume accessories)
Linen
Embroidered
Wreath
TOWEL, HAND
Stamped at back at hem: ""4150""
Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),
Tucker, Ruth Standen (Embroiderer)
26.5 x 14.25 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
1998.5188
California (United States)
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