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Alphabet Sampler. Square, natural linen ground. Strawberry vine border. Alphabets in cream and black lettering. Name at bottom in green thread with two trees flanking a geometric design below. Alphabets: #1-incomplete; #2-"A-Q"; #3-incomplete
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Sampler
""Sept 13 AD 1808"" ""Lydia Hill's sampler/wrought in the 11th year of/her age"" (Embroidered)
Hill, Lydia, 1797- (Embroiderer)
12 x 12 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of William Sumner Appleton
1935.1428
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