Antique Embroidered 1818 Alphabet Sampler, with Attribution, in Adirondack Frame greenamerican art pottery green painted piece

green painted piece

what makes this compelling is the charring to the lower left corner

but it makes me super happy that it did

The label on the lid of the box has been scraped away and Table Croquet printed in red marker on the box's back side

I'd guess this beauty dates to the 1930s-40s or so

Antique Embroidered 1818 Alphabet Sampler, with Attribution, in Adirondack Frame greenamerican art pottery green painted pieceThere is information taped to the back of this frame attributing this sampler to "Grandma" (Bonere it looks to me, but a bit hard to read) and dating it to 1818, when she was 8 years old. It is in such pristine condition it looks as if it might have been done yesterday, but the absence of the J and U, the fraktur style lettering of the first half (through to the M, then changing style with the N) and the round hand of the second half all seem right to