Handwoven and Embroidered Textile by Sarah Sanborn (NH, 1732-1792) with Family Note ladies leg horseshoe Wear as pictured

Wear as pictured

And then these decorative periods (red ringed in gold paint) after Underhill and Job and Painting--to match the periods after the initials L

And I think it's become all the better with age

My guess is that he was meant to represent Uncle Sam

as well as the techniques involved in lettering on metal

Handwoven and Embroidered Textile by Sarah Sanborn (NH, 1732-1792) with Family Note ladies leg horseshoe Wear as picturedI love finding very old things with notes about their histories carefully attached to them; we should all have such presence of mind. And the note here, written in 1936 either by grand niece Glaydis S. Little herself or someone who knew her, tells us this finely handwoven textile, embroidered with the name Sarah Sanborn, dates to the 18th century. And a search for Sarah Sanborn immediately turns up a Sarah Sanborn, born in 1732, in Hampton, Rockingham