Sweet, Small Antique Alphabet Sampler with Flamestitch Practice brushes it would be easy to

it would be easy to tie a string or ribbon around the end and hang it from the wall just to admire it

) I believe the board is quite old but was refinished at some point

plus terrific black and white text illustrations by W

clearly by the same artist

Medium in size--8" across and 3 3/8" tall--it's in good condition

Sweet, Small Antique Alphabet Sampler with Flamestitch Practice brushes it would be easy toThere are so many keen sampler dealers and collectors out there that for the most part I leave them alone. But, occasionally I find one that calls to me like an out of order alphabet I had a few months ago, and this one, with its patch of colorful flame stitching at bottom right, at odds with the careful linearity of the rest, and like a little abstract explosion of energy. Certainly this was just a little practice sampler and so here she was (a girl