SOLD Elizabeth Wood's Extremely Charming 1808 Sampler with Tiny Stitches and Wonderful Darns antique PA with the nose wiggling a

with the nose wiggling a bit if one tries

so would have been well into his 70s when he carved this one

but overall in great shape

Plus some letters from readers at the end

and I love how it appears as if she's wearing a full button down shirt and jacket in the water

SOLD Elizabeth Wood's Extremely Charming 1808 Sampler with Tiny Stitches and Wonderful Darns antique PA with the nose wiggling aA marvelous, complete charmer of a small pictorial sampler and one of my very favorite finds ever. Photos do no justice but those embroidered stitches are TINY, the color fantastic, and the small scale makes it extra intimate and tender feeling; studying it feels like a process of discovery, noticing one thing and then another, and oh, that little bird! And then wonderful patches of very old darning scattered all over, very very much to the good,