SOLD Naive But Ambitious 19th C. Pennsylvania Child's Sampler with Letters Facing Every Way 19th century drawings but sound and lovely and

but sound and lovely and ready for a 16" pillow

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

which I'm listing separately--one by Keith Haring

but I love the drawings of these two little girls and dog with tongue hanging out of its mouth so much

with fantastic

SOLD Naive But Ambitious 19th C. Pennsylvania Child's Sampler with Letters Facing Every Way 19th century drawings but sound and lovely andI'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