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Alphabet/verse sampler with the majority of space given over to flowers and trees. Alphabets: #1 complete; Numbers: 1-14, 4's are backwards. Polychromatic thread. Stitches used: cross stitch.
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""SUNDAY MORNING/The Sunday bells are knolling slow/The summer morn how fair/While father mother children go/And seek the house of prayer"/ "Ellen Bowyer aged 10 years April 11th 1839"" (Embroidered)
Bowyer, Ellen, 1829- (Embroiderer)
12 x 11 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Anonymous Gift
1946.768A
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