Antique c. 1880s Miniature Sampler with Out of Order Alphabet! vintage fine art print and certainly find him quite

and certainly find him quite an evocative figure

) Things like this make me very happy

I believe dominoes rivals cribbage as the perfect cocktail hour game

Signed on one side near the top of the tail features

it seems perhaps a portrait of the dynamics of a relationship

Antique c. 1880s Miniature Sampler with Out of Order Alphabet! vintage fine art print and certainly find him quiteOh, a sampler made completely after my own heart, with the alphabet arranged entirely according to the whim of the girl who made it! (Why shouldn't the Q follow the G and precede the P and then the B?) This makes me completely and totally happy. Someone more knowledgable than I dates it to about 1880s, and deciphered the name of the genius who made it as G. B. Chambers, spelled out on the last line, though there is a bit of thread loss on the G and B.