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Sale On Scarlet Letter America Cross Stitch Patterns

Elizabeth Wisler 1845 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$7.00  Sale $580
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Note from the designer: "This sampler is a fine example of work done by Pennsylvania German girls in the early-to-mid nineteenth century. Similar motifs appear on the show towels that decorated kitchen and bedroom doors in these immigrant German households. It is thought that while the show... Read more
Abigail Gould's Sampler 1796 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$12.00  Sale $995
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Note from the designer - "This sampler shows a man and a woman beneath an apple tree, reminiscent of Adam and Eve, but in contemporary dress. Possibly of New York origin (the format and background suggest this), this reproduction is stitched on linen with either cotton or silk, with the... Read more
Ann Harding 1821 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$10.00  Sale $829
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Note from the designer - "This Dover, Massachusetts, sampler features an unusual border surrounding alphabetical and numerical tests, and a four-line verse often found on early 19th century American samplers. The colors are remarkably well preserved. The maker, Ann Harding (who was actually... Read more
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
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
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
Rose Shenamon Mitchell 1816 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$22.00  Sale $1826
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Rose's unusual middle name should have provided some clues about where she was born, and where she lived, but the name "Shenamon" is elusive despite my efforts to discover its origins as well as hers. It is spelled many different ways when researched (including Shinimon and Schinnamon which... Read more
Elizabeth Ginger 1735 - Cross Stitch Pattern
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$29.00  Sale $2409
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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