Batiste dress

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Batiste dress made by Josephine Scullin, ca. 1957

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EMBROIDERED BODICE and APRON, 1830s. White cotton batiste bodice having short melon sleeve and front point with silk piping decorated in polychrome satin stitch flowering branchwork, silk lining, matching unlined apron with cord tie. B-30, W-22, apron 39 x 31. (Mends on bodice, two tiny holes and faint stains on sleeve, scattered spots on apron) good. MMA $570