Very Naive 19th Century New England Alphabet Sampler with Zig Zag on (Equally Expressive) Homespun collectible blocks I really love this little

I really love this little tin litho football

Lots of wear to covers and curling to the corners as evident

and then a mix of smaller papers

(I've seen toothpicks work pretty well as peg legs:)

Very Naive 19th Century New England Alphabet Sampler with Zig Zag on (Equally Expressive) Homespun collectible blocks I really love this littleSo many different sorts of samplers to love, for different reasons. As far as alphabet samplers go (simple ones like this are also called marking samplers), I see a lot of lovely early examples around New England, with precisely embroidered, densely packed letters marching along perfectly straight lines, and I do very much admire them. But much less often do I come across an example as naive, and so, as expressive, as this one. And I think small ones