Sweet, Small Antique Alphabet Sampler with Flamestitch Practice mid-century modern teak vase There is a little bit

There is a little bit of chipping to the wood at the very end of the blade

Raising the status of American stoneware

Here's the poem

scuffed and smudged

Sweet, Small Antique Alphabet Sampler with Flamestitch Practice mid-century modern teak vase There is a little bitThere are so many keen sampler dealers and collectors out there that for the most part I leave them alone. But, occasionally I find one that calls to me like an out of order alphabet I had a few months ago, and this one, with its patch of colorful flame stitching at bottom right, at odds with the careful linearity of the rest, and like a little abstract explosion of energy. Certainly this was just a little practice sampler and so here she was (a girl