SOLD Naive But Ambitious 19th C. Pennsylvania Child's Sampler with Letters Facing Every Way 19th century drawings with light wear to the

with light wear to the lacquer and minor surface cracking

9 3/8" in diameter

with fantastic

some of them showing carved plugs

The spine is in rough shape but the binding is holding and the pages are in generally good condition

SOLD Naive But Ambitious 19th C. Pennsylvania Child's Sampler with Letters Facing Every Way 19th century drawings with light wear to theI'm a sucker for a super naive antique sampler, and really really love the combination of very naive and very aspirational; no small thing to attempt letters as fancy as many of these and, really, even more of a feat to manage a whole stretch of them backwards! I know from the seller I purchased this from that it came from Pennsylvania, c. mid 19th century I believe. The ground is very loosely woven, with unfinished edges but the embroidered borders