Feb 03, 2011 - Sale 2235

Sale 2235 - Lot 58

Unsold
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(CUNARD LINE.) "Lusitania." Early needlepoint or counted thread memorial embroidery, with central worded memorial on a plain field and a colorful repeating patterned border, 24 1/2x36 inches; in an old frame. Text on the piece reads, "Cunard Liner / Lusitania / 33000 Tons / Sunk by German Submarine / in the / Atlantic Ocean / Off the Old Head of Kinsale / Ireland / May 7th 1915." Circa 1915