Very Naive 19th Century New England Alphabet Sampler with Zig Zag on (Equally Expressive) Homespun carved wooden stick Wear to the box and

Wear to the box and lightly used

Certainly there have been plenty of tornadoes in Kansas to document the effects of

sliding lid with the a slit for coins at the center--easily removed to empty the bank

which is invariably full of fine and unusual things

the majority backed with cloth and dotted with pinpricks from having been used

Very Naive 19th Century New England Alphabet Sampler with Zig Zag on (Equally Expressive) Homespun carved wooden stick Wear to the box andSo many different sorts of samplers to love, for different reasons. As far as alphabet samplers go (simple ones like this are also called marking samplers), I see a lot of lovely early examples around New England, with precisely embroidered, densely packed letters marching along perfectly straight lines, and I do very much admire them. But much less often do I come across an example as naive, and so, as expressive, as this one. And I think small ones