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Embroidered alphabet sampler in a plain wood frame. Inscription worked in cross stitch "Happy is she whose early/years receive instruction/Mary Willis born/Portland AE9 Dec 14, 1805"
samplers (embroidery)
needlework (visual works)
embroidery (visual works)
Sampler
Framed At/GOODSPEED'S BOOK SHOP/Ashburton Place/BOSTON (typed)
Sampler made by my grandmother/Mary Willis born in Portland 1805/at the age of nine. She married/James H. Duncun of Haverhill/and died in 1888. I remember her well./This sampler belonged to my mother/and came to me when the/house was broken up in 1928./My brother has a similar one made/by grandmother Phillips about/the same time./Stephen W. Phillips/Salem Jun. 9 1928. (handwritten)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
FD230
Duncan, Mary Willis, 1805-1888 (Embroiderer)
Goodspeed's Bookstore (Framer)
Portland, Maine
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1159
Probably Maine (United States)
Probably Portland (Cumberland county, Maine)
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