SOLD Elizabeth Wood's Extremely Charming 1808 Sampler with Tiny Stitches and Wonderful Darns eskimo mask but most of all for

but most of all for the figure eight traced on the surface of the ice

speaking to the sin of arrogance

7 1/2" x 3 5/8" and in good antique condition

I found this one together with the tintype of a girl in gold necklace I just listed

there is a bit of the red showing on the lower layers of the sides particularly (not visible when viewed from the front)

SOLD Elizabeth Wood's Extremely Charming 1808 Sampler with Tiny Stitches and Wonderful Darns eskimo mask but most of all forA marvelous, complete charmer of a small pictorial sampler and one of my very favorite finds ever. Photos do no justice but those embroidered stitches are TINY, the color fantastic, and the small scale makes it extra intimate and tender feeling; studying it feels like a process of discovery, noticing one thing and then another, and oh, that little bird! And then wonderful patches of very old darning scattered all over, very very much to the good,