Alphabets in Blue with Wavering Lines and Many Extra Tries, Early 19th C. Practice Sampler antique british floral study It shows light wear

It shows light wear

measures 3 1/4" tall with a diameter of 3 1/2" and an opening of 1 5/8"

1 1/2" deep

and which appears to have been finely carved from one piece of wood

edited by Ron Padgett

Alphabets in Blue with Wavering Lines and Many Extra Tries, Early 19th C. Practice Sampler antique british floral study It shows light wearA perfect example of the sort of sampler I love one filled with personality, completely radiating the hand and humanity of the girl who made it, in this case surely quite a young one. Just look at those completely wonky wavering free hand lines separating each row of letters, and then the back to back repetition of certain letters SSS, UU, WWW, YY as if the second or third try would be the charm. And brown thread for just a few, disrupting the blue of