Sweet, Small Antique Alphabet Sampler with Flamestitch Practice mid-century modern teak vase heart shaped nose

heart shaped nose

scuffed and smudged

I have put a matte over it approximately matching the cream color of the paper and put it in a simple

It definitely has a few dark spots but I've not tried to polish it as I really like it just the way it is

Sweet, Small Antique Alphabet Sampler with Flamestitch Practice mid-century modern teak vase heart shaped noseThere are so many keen sampler dealers and collectors out there that for the most part I leave them alone. But, occasionally I find one that calls to me like an out of order alphabet I had a few months ago, and this one, with its patch of colorful flame stitching at bottom right, at odds with the careful linearity of the rest, and like a little abstract explosion of energy. Certainly this was just a little practice sampler and so here she was (a girl