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Alphabet verse sampler, cross stitch border. The lower half is embroidered with a house, trees, fence, flowers, birds and people. Alphabets: #1-missing "J","U", #2-"A-W", with some letters repeated. Numbers: "1-9"; cross stitch and satin stitch.
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Sampler
""Here on this you may cast you eye when I in/my Grave doLie above all the work that is d/one in time pray seek for mercy till you find"" (Embroidered)
Unknown
19 3/4 x 15 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. Lue Stuart Wadsworth
1937.680
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