A £2200 token of love – Cumbrian medallion sampler surfaces in Cheltenham
Among the most desirable of all needlework samplers are those associated with pupils at the Ackworth School, founded as a co-educational boarding school in 1779 by the Quaker physician John Fothergill and still thriving today.
Many of these 'medallion' designs, worked as gifts to classroom friends with motifs perhaps taken fr…