American Sampler

American Folk Art child's sampler, late 19th century, the rectangular linen body stitched in pastel hues with multiple capital letter alphabet, lower case alphabet, numbers 1-10.

American Mid-Victorian Folk Art children's sampler dated 1860 The nearly square sampler with a full alphabet both in capitals and lowercase, numbers 1-9, multiple baskets of flowe...

American Folk Art Sampler, Elizabeth Sarah Wilcox, mid-19th century, wool needlepoint on linen, stitched with a strawberry and vine border, and with a basket of flowers, heart, trees...

Daniel died in 1872 and Mary Ann in 1888; both are buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National...

RARE AMERICAN SAMPLER FROM PENNSYLVANIA SIGNED BY MARTHA SCODDER BORN OCTOBER 17, 1794 AT AGE 9 YEARS 1804.THIS SAMPLER WAS EXECUTED ON HOMEMADE FLAX RAW LINEN AND IS IN GOOD CONDITI...

American Sampler, 1840, by Cornelia Metford. The sampler is worked in silk threads on a linen ground, mainly in cross stitch.

Charming American Sampler "Wrought by Edith E. Jewett" from "Portland, Oregon" in the year "1928"; obviously a talented young lady who meticulously laid out three versions of the alp...

American sampler of silk floss on linen with a modest zig-zag border framing an uppercase letter alphabet, followed by a cursive alphabet, a lower case alphabet, and the numerals one...

An American folk art sampler. Originally these were intended to diplay a persons skill with needlework.

1827 Sampler made by Susan Gillings, Anglo-American. "The Promises of God", Susan Gilling, six years old.

4 American Empire style dining chairs by The Sampler.

A beautiful solid cherry side table by The Sampler out of Homer, Indiana. Circa 1970s. Features a rectangular form with a dovetailed drawer within the frieze over turned and ribbed ...

This collection of mini Navajo weaving children's or sampler weaving pillows.The further most right pillow is a double sided pillow. The back of that plllow is shown as the last imag...

A fun hand-stitched cross stitch sampler. Framed in a wooden frame, it is stitched with: "Antiques The only one interested in what your grandmother had was your grandfather" ...

VERY RARE AND PRISTINE CONDITION AMERICAN HAND HOOKED SAMPLER/FLORAL PICTORIAL WITH A HIT OR MISS PATTERN ON THE BORDER AND EVERY OTHER BLOCK IN THE BODY OF THE RUG.THIS RUG IS SUCH ...

1826 Anglo-American framed sampler by Julia Rogers. Silk pictorial acrostic sampler with exquisitely worked squirrels, stags, urns & baskets of flowers, etc.

Girlhood embroidery, American samplers and pictorial needlework 1650-1850 by Betty Ring.

Girlhood embroidery, American samplers and pictorial needlework 1650-1850 by Betty Ring.

Nice original American sampler wrought by "Mary Nelson", circa 1837.

This pillow features Merrifield Sampler with a box edge finish. Based on hand-drawn art created in our studio and inspired by early American samplers, this embroidered design is anim...

A scarce Navajo pictorial "sampler" style weaving with the masonic logo consisting of a square and compasses and the letter "G." Exhibited: Museum of Man, San Diego, California ...

A scarce Navajo pictorial "sampler" style weaving with the masonic logo consisting of a square and compasses and the letter "G." Exhibited: Museum of Man, San ...

Early 1900's American sampler, under glass; nicely, professionally mounted and displayed in appropriate contemporary black frame with narrow red inset.

Lovely American Sampler with family register by "Julia Ellen Painter aged 9 Years Old" under the tutelage of "Sarah Potter Plymouth" with the date stitched "Feb 1845" which would mak...

American marking sampler, featuring five sample alphabets and a numerical progression in contrasting styles and stitch.

Antique American needlework sampler by Eliza Jordan, aged 12, late 18th century, a very fine and fanciful pictorial needlework sampler on linen panel featuring a great variety of ani...

Very occasionally, schoolgirls worked samplers featuring American eagles and these are considered highly desirable in the field of folk art.

Overall these samplers are amongst the most inventive and appealing of American samplers.

While English and American samplers from early periods tend to be vertical in shape, Friesian samplers are generally horizontal in format.

The three other known samplers include one made by Betsey Daniels, dated 1800, that is now in the Danvers Historical Society (published in Girlhood Embroidery American Samplers & Pic...

II of GIRLHOOD EMBROIDERY: AMERICAN SAMPLERS & PICTORIAL NEEDLEWORK 1650 – 1850 (Knopf 1993), in a section entitled Philadelphia’s Opulent Embroidery.

The pictorial samplers made in Burlington County, New Jersey in the first three decades of the 19th century form one of the most significant of all groups of American samplers.

Kapnek, and is published as figure 98 in A GALLERY OF AMERICAN SAMPLERS: THE THEODORE H. KAPNEK COLLECTION (Dutton, 1978) by Glee Krueger, one of the most important pieces in his ext...

Harriet died on February 8, 1853. Another sampler that Harriet made when she was eight years old in 1812, a much simpler piece, was listed in the seminal book, American Samplers by E...

A fine American needlework sampler worked by Silence Goodnow of Penfield, New York at the age of 14.

Collectors of Quaker school needlework will find much to admire in the work of Jane Walton, a newly discovered sampler made at the Westown School in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Thi...

An engaging sampler, this features a scene of a bold house, depicted in three-quarter view, flanked by a tall, deep green tree and a similarly tall lady in a blue top hat holding her...

This splendid sampler features an outstandingly folky scene with a house and trees and birds – it was worked in 1808 by Elizabeth Ann Marks. The pictorial elements are at the same ti...

A nicely composed pictorial sampler, (probably Pennsylvania) by Ann Lee Burton, Dated 1842. This sampler has truly beautiful colors, is extremely graphic and skillfully rendered. It ...

This charming little sampler displays a most appropriate aphorism: “Even a child is known by his doings,” from Proverb 20:11. Likely one of Miss Gill’s first samplers, along with thi...

Massachusetts embroidered school girls sampler, 18th century. "Wrought by Mary Fowler in Danvers, July 20th 1791, Aged 10 years," silk threads on green linsey-woolsey. Dimensions: 1...

Occasionally a sampler offers a truly winning combination: a highly appealing pictorial scene along with a fascinating family history and Sally Paine Hemenway’s sampler falls into th...

We very rarely encounter a sampler, English or American, which is unlike any other known example.

While part of the collection of the American Folk Art Museum, this sampler was exhibited in “Every Picture Tells a Story: Word and Image in American Folk Art,” in 1994 and 1995.

The Emma-Henriette Schiff von Suvero Collection included a large and interesting group of European, American and English samplers, as well as furniture, porcelain and paintings.

Nice American school girl sampler dated 1841 by Alice Roberts found in a Hingham, Ma. home.