Early 19th Century Alphabet Sampler with Fantastic Border on Homespun Linen Napier cup 2 7/16" tall x 1

2 7/16" tall x 1 3/8" wide x 9/16" deep

rings and a little cracking here and there

3 1/8" x 3 ea

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

Early 19th Century Alphabet Sampler with Fantastic Border on Homespun Linen Napier cup 2 7/16" tall x 1It 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