Scarlet Letter Cross Stitch Patterns Page 3

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Drunkenness by Emma George 1842 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$10.00  Sale $829
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The Temperance Movement of the early nineteenth century began in the United States prior to 1808. Preachers, most notably John Bartholomew Gough, promulgated a pledge of abstinence from members of his congregation. While temperance efforts have existed as long as spirits have, the movement was not... Read more
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Emma Lerch 1843 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$12.00  $1127
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Note from the designer: "A gift from the collection of Rosalind and Edwin Miller to the museum. Emma Lerch was born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in 1830, and she stitched this sampler in her thirteenth year. It is a very simple work, with a lovely meandering floral border. While perhaps... Read more
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FAK-MEK 1779 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$10.00  $939
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Note from the designer: "This northern German sampler consists of random symbolic spot motifs, with a simple zigzag border. Religious symbols are commonly found on continental samplers. On this example, we find the wreath carried by angels (the wreath as a symbol for eternal life): the ship... Read more
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Fanny M Forister 1828 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$18.00  Sale $1493
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This sweet little American sampler features two little houses above alphabets and a short verse:

Would you be wise
Each moment prize

It is surrounded on four sides by a double sided satin stitched sawtooth border. Stitches used include cross, outline, stem filling, counted... Read more
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Fanny Hancock 1796 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$7.00  Sale $580
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Fanny Hancock's father, Ebenezer Hancock, was cousin to the famous John Hancock. Born in 1785, Fanny sewed her sampler at age 11. She married Nathaniel Parker of Boston in 1803, and died in 1834. The colors on the back side of her sampler retained much of their original brilliance, and are... Read more
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Fanny Peachey Circa 1810 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$15.00  Sale $1244
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Note from the designer: "This naive Adam and Eve sampler might have been made in Maryland around 1810. At first I believed that the sampler was either English or Irish, judging by the unusual surname, until, in my research, I came upon the gravestone of a Fanny H. Peachey, born 24 November 1799,... Read more
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Frances B Jones 1817 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$18.00  $1691
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Note from the designer: "The characteristic that readily identifies the origin of this sampler is the distinctive vine and rose border, configured such that a leaf on one side and a rosebud stem on the other give the illusion of a double vine. It is almost always found executed in cross stitch... Read more
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Freelove Hazard 1792 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$12.00  $1127
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Note from the designer: "This sampler was probably made in Rhode Island, a poor sister, perhaps, to the magnificent creations coming out of the girls' schools in Newport, Providence and Bristol at this same period, but bearing some similar "signatures". The squat, long-tailed bird at the... Read more
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Elizabeth Treadaway 1793 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$33.00  Sale $2738
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This sampler features two uncommon verses taken from the book Sentences and Maxims Divine, Moral and Historical, in Prose and Instruction of Human Life: and Particularly for the Improvement of Youth in Good Sence and correct English by George Shelley, published in London in 1712.

NO GAINS... Read more
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Grace Catlin 1719 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$19.00  $1785
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Note from the designer: "Who would love this world or prize whats in it that gives and takes and chops and changes every minute.

This brilliant English traditional band sampler comes from the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Drawing on traditional sampler motifs of the 17th... Read more
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Grazing Sheep circa 1810 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$18.00  Sale $1493
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Note from the designer: "This finely worked sampler features pastoral scenes above and below a lovely verse about friendship. A four-sided honeysuckle border surrounds large baskets of fruits and flowers, a fenced pasture with seven large lazy sheep and an architectural folly in the background.... Read more
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Hannah Breed 1756 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$10.00  Sale $829
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Note from the designer: "This American band sampler was originally worked in Lynn, Massachusetts. Hannah Breed is mentioned in Bolton and Coe's authoritative book American Samplers. Rows of lettering are intermixed with a row of sheep and cows, a verse, and floral bands. The verse says:

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Harriet Boardman 1804 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$10.00  Sale $829
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Note from the designer: "From Dover, Massachusetts, comes Harriot Boardman's sampler, originally worked on a distinctive green linsey-woolsey found only on some North Shore samplers. A three-sided sawtooth border surrounds alphabet and numeral tests with geometric cross bands, two deer with... Read more
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Harriot Ringrose 1852 - Christian Cross Stitch Pattern
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$20.00  Sale $1659
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Note from the designer: "The flight into Egypt is a biblical event described in the Gospel of Matthew. Soon after Mary and Jesus were visited by the Magi, who had learned that King Herod intended to kill the male infants in that region, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee... Read more
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Helen Vertue 1812 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$20.00  $1879
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Note from the designer: "A beautiful meandering four-sided floral border in an unusually rich color palette surrounds this traditional Scottish sampler, also featuring a beautiful arcaded floral band at the top and a substantial mansion house in the lower register. Trees, tulips and flying birds... Read more
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Home Sweet Home Sampler - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$8.00  $751
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Note from the designer: "This original design blends a mid-18th century floral sampler border with a late 18th century lettering and cartouche style, and a mid-19th century sentiment. Instructions are provided for working the sampler in a different color scheme (red, blues, greens) on a neutral... Read more
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Hornbook Bestiary - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$27.00  Sale $2240
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Note from the designer: "The figures depicted on this original design were derived from wood block engravings of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The format of the hornbook follows actual examples from the late 18th century. Hornbooks functioned as primers, used to teach young children their... Read more
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IAMEK 1801 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$8.00  Sale $663
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Note from the designer: "German and Dutch samplers are known for their iconography, especially the symbolic religious motifs. This piece, reproduced from the collection of the Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania, portrays many of these motifs. Adam and Eve, in particular, are often... Read more
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Isabella Robeson circa 1809 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$9.00  $845
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Note from the designer: "This Scottish sampler features many distinguishing characteristics of samplers made in that country, most notably the arcaded pansy band across the top third, the four-sided floral border with double running stitch flourishes, and the famous mansion house. Of this large... Read more
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Janet Burnet 1830 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$21.00  $1973
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Displaying the traditional color scheme of Scottish samplers, this beautiful and delicately stitched piece also employs a variety of interesting counted thread stitches including queen, doublerunning, four-sided, back, counted satin filling, cross, Algerian eyelet, and cross over one (petit... Read more
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Jenny Bean 1794 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$16.00  Sale $1327
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Note from the designer: "Samplers worked with black backgrounds are unique to New England, and this one is designed after a late 18th century Massachusetts piece. A portly clergyman is depicted strolling between a fashionable lady under a parasol, and a church or meeting -house; with a frisky... Read more
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Mary Randal 1803 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$29.00  Sale $2409
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This design was excerpted from the top of an early nineteenth-century English sampler. It features an unusual and amusing hunting scene with a solo hunter on horseback pursuing a single hapless stag with a pack of ten spotted hounds on its trail.

The verse reads: Give me O Lord thy early... Read more
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Elizabeth Ginger 1735 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$29.00  $2729
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This English sampler comes from the collection of the late Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Jarrett, who established Witney Antiques. It was featured in one of their exhibition catalogs in December 1996 titled "All Creatures Great and Small."

The work is extremely fine and accomplished,... Read more
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Ann Ward 1808 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$21.00  $1979
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This is a reproduction of a Quaker sampler made in Chester County, Pennsylvania consisting of alphabets, numerals, ligatures* and lineal patterns executed in a variety of stitches. The uppermost border with the dangling central flower is often seen on American Quaker samplers of this period (see... Read more
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Mary Wagstaff 1819 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$25.00  $2349
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This English sampler features a three-sided floral border surrounding thirteen lines of alphabets, neatly cross-stitched in several different lettering styles. Mary Wagstaff was likely born in Huyton, Lancashire in 1809, completing this sampler when she was ten years old. She passed away in... Read more
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Ann Anthony 1838 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$34.00  $3199
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This amazing, unprecedented English sampler illustrates so many unique and bold elements of design, stitched in a balanced way inside a four-sided strawberry border. In all my decades of study I've never seen an antique sampler with quite this much bizarre personality.

At the top is a... Read more
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Sarah Elizabeth Hollings 1835 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$35.00  Sale $2909
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This is an expansive English sampler with an unusual four-sided leafy branch and floral border, centering a very busy reserve filled with baskets of fruits and flowers, stylized trees and plants, birds, lions rampant, butterflies, rabbits, and stags. A large building/mansion/institution is at the... Read more
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Sarah Mitchell 1758 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$32.00  $3009
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Here is a dainty and colorful mid-eighteenth-century English sampler executed entirely in cross and petit point stitches making it a suitable project for any skill level.

A four-sided arcaded border of daisies and dianthus surrounds three pious verses with delicate horizontal floral bands... Read more

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