Lovely 1830 Needlepoint of Parrot on Branch with Monogram in Early Frame A.M King I am very picky about

I am very picky about choosing individually pieces of stone fruit based on very particular criteria

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with a little cracking here and there as pictured

with this simply but I think really wonderfully embroidered smiling face

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Lovely 1830 Needlepoint of Parrot on Branch with Monogram in Early Frame A.M King I am very picky aboutAn early and beautifully done needlepoint of a parrot executed in wool on perforated paper with a note on the back of the antique frame written by a Susan Frazar Kennedy, noting is having been worked in 1830, I presume by a relative, perhaps her mother, with the monogram MEF. What I love most about the needlepoint itself is that fabulous border, with triangles and squares of directional stitching, in cream and a sort of khaki green, adding up to