Sweet, Small Antique Alphabet Sampler with Flamestitch Practice brushes During the late 1920s and

During the late 1920s and 1930s

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

I think it was quite wise as well as resourceful of women not to let cigar silks/ribbons go to waste

I bought this complete set together and am selling them as a set

plus terrific black and white text illustrations by W

Sweet, Small Antique Alphabet Sampler with Flamestitch Practice brushes During the late 1920s andThere 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