SOLD Naive But Ambitious 19th C. Pennsylvania Child's Sampler with Letters Facing Every Way 19th century drawings 9 3/8" in diameter

9 3/8" in diameter

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

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

Jiggs drawing measures 4 7/8" x 2"

SOLD Naive But Ambitious 19th C. Pennsylvania Child's Sampler with Letters Facing Every Way 19th century drawings 9 3/8" in diameterI'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