Antique Needlework Sampler on Linen with Triple Alphabet, House, Flowers carved shoe with laces In excellent structural condition with

In excellent structural condition with no major dings or bends

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There are some very fancy little antique shoe-shaped snuff boxes out there with all sorts of inlays and flourishes

One finds a fair number of handmade doggy doorstops from the 1940s and 50s (I wonder if they were something people made in shop class

Each plate measures 8

Antique Needlework Sampler on Linen with Triple Alphabet, House, Flowers carved shoe with laces In excellent structural condition withI'd guess the young woman who created this sampler did not expect it would be around 200 or so years later, so may not have thought much about using very light color threads that would more or less disappear as it aged. The linen backing and needlework itself has held up extremely well and appears almost completely intact, but the linen has darkened and the needlework faded, so it lives now as a very sweet but quite subtle piece, which I love but