Very Naive 19th Century New England Alphabet Sampler with Zig Zag on (Equally Expressive) Homespun carved wooden stick ) It was the top

) It was the top photo here that drew me

sliding lid with the a slit for coins at the center--easily removed to empty the bank

and this cast brass one with foot at the end of the tamping post has a sort of Carl Auböck feel to me--and as my instagram icon is a Carl Auböck brass foot

Certainly there have been plenty of tornadoes in Kansas to document the effects of

with the name William Henry Rivers (or similar

Very Naive 19th Century New England Alphabet Sampler with Zig Zag on (Equally Expressive) Homespun carved wooden stick ) It was the topSo many different sorts of samplers to love, for different reasons. As far as alphabet samplers go (simple ones like this are also called marking samplers), I see a lot of lovely early examples around New England, with precisely embroidered, densely packed letters marching along perfectly straight lines, and I do very much admire them. But much less often do I come across an example as naive, and so, as expressive, as this one. And I think small ones