Early 19th Century Alphabet Sampler with Fantastic Border on Homespun Linen vintage illustration on board 17th century Spanish

17th century Spanish

I love the juxtaposition of these multiples profile views of young women

or are the byproduct of making something else

Everything about it except for the red paint makes me believe it is a Dorman Products Hardware storage cabinet from the 1950s or so

Early 19th Century Alphabet Sampler with Fantastic Border on Homespun Linen vintage illustration on board 17th century SpanishIt is the fantastic embroidered border which happily consumes much of the space! that really sold me on this American schoolgirl sampler, which dates sometime between 1800 1830 I believe. Details show it best two borders, really, with this wonderful snaking vine punctuated with a variety of flowers in between. With a cross stitch alphabet at center, and then again in lower case with numbers 1,2,3,4 running along the bottom, uninterrupted. The color on