Super Crisp Antique Monogrammed Sewing Sampler: Patching, Seams, Stitches, Fasteners us embossing company which seem to me to

which seem to me to be a great trove of folk art delights

Very good condition with what looks to be quite a bit of age

Some wear to the metal on the back

9 1/4" long x 1 7/8" across at ferrule (where bristles attach to handle

The nail at the heel of the latter seems to have broken off (the head is still nailed to the sole

Super Crisp Antique Monogrammed Sewing Sampler: Patching, Seams, Stitches, Fasteners us embossing company which seem to me toThis is a crisp, precise, very smart looking antique sewing skills sampler, looking at which feels to me akin to putting on a freshly pressed and starched cotton dress shirt! I come across examples related to this now and then typically a series of single squares mounted one by one to the pages of a sewing class notebook, each demonstrating one type of stitch or seam or hem but more rarely do I come across a larger example, polished and resolved and