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Alphabet/Verse Sampler. Vertical rectangle, cream colored linen ground. Alphabets in top half, verse in bottom. Monochromatic-green and white. Geometric border. Alphabets: #1 missing "J"; #2 "A-G"; #3 complete; #4 "A-F,I"; #5 "A-X"; cross stitch, eyelet hole; framed, under glass.
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""Guide of my youth to thee I cry/Great God to me br ever nigh/Lighten mine eyes convert my heart/Nor let me from my ways depart"" ""Deborah Thaxter Aged 7 years/Hingham 1819"" (Embroidered)
Stimson, Deborah Thaxter, 1812- (Embroiderer)
14 1/4 x 13 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Louise Stimson
1981.47
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