Early 19th Century Alphabet Sampler with Fantastic Border on Homespun Linen Napier cup It measures 11 1/4" across

It measures 11 1/4" across and 2 5/8" tall

This is a lovely late 19th century notebook of drawings

wherever it lands

There is a small hiarline crack in one front window but it is stable

Photos don't really capture the full character or color on this old handmade frame with its original square bevelled glass mirror

Early 19th Century Alphabet Sampler with Fantastic Border on Homespun Linen Napier cup It measures 11 1/4" acrossIt is the fantastic embroidered border which happily consumes much of the space! that really sold me on this American schoolgirl sampler, which dates sometime between 1800 1830 I believe. Details show it best two borders, really, with this wonderful snaking vine punctuated with a variety of flowers in between. With a cross stitch alphabet at center, and then again in lower case with numbers 1,2,3,4 running along the bottom, uninterrupted. The color on