Antique Samplers

This sampler is very likely from Massachusetts and is framed in what could be the original frame (not pictured). It features two elegant houses at the top, three alphabets, a sawtooth satin stitched four sided border, and floral borders on the right and left. The verse is: Would you be wiseEach moment prize Stitches used…

Very finely stitched English sampler with alphabets and three verses at the top, with a scene featuring a large and elaborately detailed flower flanked by two enormous butterflies, within a four sided floral and Greek key border. The verses are: Come down sweet Jesus from aboveAnd feed my soul with heavenly love Remember Time will…

Probably English, this sampler features a “geode” bird (distinctive style seen on samplers made in England, The Netherlands, and America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries). The bird is flanked by flowers and hearts and surrounded by an extremely unusual four sided border of flying cherubs. The condition is fair, the color very…

A Scottish sampler stitched with wool threads on hand woven wool cloth, consisting of a series of alphabets, numerals and family initials including some illuminated initials and an impressive mansion house at the bottom. Stitches used are cross, eyelet, double running and counted satin. Condition is fair with some thread loss. The sampler measures 8-3/4″…

“Mama and Papa”, 10-1/2″ x 11″ (with the frame 13-1/2″ x 13″) and “AMH FHB TNH”, 11-1/2″ x 11″th frame 13-3/4″ x 13-3/4″), very good condition, with minor stains and wear.

Possibly Scottish, this adorable little sampler in very good condition features the phrase FEAR GOD, worked in eyelet stitch as its main focal point. Stitched on linen with fine wool threads, it is executed in shades of green, gold, red, rose, beige and brown with four rows of alphabets above the foreboding verse, with her…

Droughtville Forest 1807 This is a very unusual Irish sampler. The top third could pass as Scottish with the illuminated alphabets and beautiful, delicate double running stitch motifs. An unusual band of ten lozenges is stitched under the alphabets, each with a different petit point motif within in. The lower half of the sampler is…

This is a very unusual English sampler, extremely finely worked, but with considerable losses. Nonetheless it is a fascinating study piece. Many astonishing sections remain in reasonably good condition. It begins with five rows of alphabets done in eyelet, cross and counted satin stitches. The thread count approaches 60. The next section is a horizontal…

This sampler, from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and cleaned and conserved by their staff, features six pattern darns surrounded by a four sided floral border stitched freehand with stem and satin stitches, including French knots, centering a floral cartouche stitched free hand on a very fine linen tiffany ground. Excellent color,…

English sampler stitched with wool on linen depicting two large cats, a parrot, a cockatoo, a duck, a stag and a dog, worked mostly in cross stitch with eyelet lettering. There is a geometric four sided border. There are some small holes, minor fading, it could use a good cleaning but otherwise in very good…

Unframed English sampler stitched with silk on very fine linen. Paired cherubs flank the tree in the upper register, followed by a pious verse, and the attribution with potted flowers and trees. There is a four sided floral border. Stitches used are cross , eyelet and petit point.z The verse is: Heaven’s choice is safer…

An English Sampler This beautifully preserved sampler retains its original, intense color, and exhibits a wide variety of stitches in its rendering of floral sprays and a bucolic scene, complete with a thatched cottage with mullioned windows, a garden folly, and fields of ripened grain. There is some minor wear to the background, but it…