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Antique Sampler

7 years ago

I was in a little town east of us today and as I was driving down the street, there was a sale -- a lot of neat "antiques" on the sidewalk and so I stopped. For $10 I found this sampler:



I adore samplers and although I don't have a wall of them I do have a few. This one had a nice look and although it was "dated" 1842 and had an "aged" look, I felt that it was a reproduction. Coming home, I googled Mary Ann Beard sampler and could not believe what popped up. It must be a popular sampler, one reproduced many times and there were "several" sites that stated it was "original" but I am thinking that perhaps that is not true.


The linen on mine is very fine. Much finer than most of my other reproduction samplers. A very fine linen which means very fine stitches.


I think I did well for $10 and it is also nicely framed (and the back seems to be a new back rather than something which much age which led me to believe that it was "new")


I will put it in my guest room where I have my other samplers.

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