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Unfinished alphabet sampler with heart and geometric border. Alphabets: #1 complete; #2 missing "J"; #3 complete; #4 incomplete; #5 incomplete. Numbers: "1-9". Stitches used: cross stitch, eyelet hole stitch, and satin stitch.
samplers (embroidery)
needlework (visual works)
cross-stitching
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Sampler
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
20 x 17 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.565
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