Sweet, Small Antique Alphabet Sampler with Flamestitch Practice bone L on bottom

L on bottom

Longest one: 4 7/8" long

with brass pins at their centers

Box measures 7 3/4" x 2" x 3/4"

some age toning/foxing to end papers

Sweet, Small Antique Alphabet Sampler with Flamestitch Practice bone L on bottomThere are so many keen sampler dealers and collectors out there that for the most part I leave them alone. But, occasionally I find one that calls to me like an out of order alphabet I had a few months ago, and this one, with its patch of colorful flame stitching at bottom right, at odds with the careful linearity of the rest, and like a little abstract explosion of energy. Certainly this was just a little practice sampler and so here she was (a girl