SOLD Elizabeth Wood's Extremely Charming 1808 Sampler with Tiny Stitches and Wonderful Darns antique PA with gold loop at top

with gold loop at top for wearing on a chain

A little research leads me to the believe

but overall in great shape

with the nose wiggling a bit if one tries

Plus some letters from readers at the end

SOLD Elizabeth Wood's Extremely Charming 1808 Sampler with Tiny Stitches and Wonderful Darns antique PA with gold loop at topA marvelous, complete charmer of a small pictorial sampler and one of my very favorite finds ever. Photos do no justice but those embroidered stitches are TINY, the color fantastic, and the small scale makes it extra intimate and tender feeling; studying it feels like a process of discovery, noticing one thing and then another, and oh, that little bird! And then wonderful patches of very old darning scattered all over, very very much to the good,