Cloth Fragment
- Object Name:
- Cloth Fragment
- Object ID:
- 2012.040
- Place of Origin:
- England
- Date:
- 1750-1775
- Description:
- Textile fragment. Rectangular piece with rough cut edges. Warp-patterned blue silk brocade (tobira). Repeating rose and sprig pattern. With early 20th-century handwritten note: "John Salter first wife was Dorothy Bickford - this piece of blue brocade belonged to her. She died in March 1776."
- Material:
- Textile
Silk - Dimensions:
- W-5 L-19.8 inches
- Provenance:
- Dorothy Bickford (1740-1776) was the first of three wives of Captain John Salter (1740-1814), mariner, of Portsmouth. They were married on December 13, 1762. Salter was a ship captain trading in Europe and a privateer during the American Revolution.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
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