SOLD Mary Richardson's 1836 Jam Packed Sampler donkey and elephant 13 3/8" t x 6"

13 3/8" t x 6" w x 2 7/8" d and in sturdy structural condition

arrowheads

The carving looks to have been done a good many years ago

which this is very similar to in manner

I suppose he might also have one attached to a dowel by which one walked him along

SOLD Mary Richardson's 1836 Jam Packed Sampler donkey and elephant 13 3/8" t x 6"(Detail photos give a better sense of this one, tough to shoot through the glass.) I have tried but not been able to definitively place the Mary Richardson who completed this sampler in 1836 found in Maine and I presume American despite based on what I take for homespun linen, but I am not an expert. In any case wonderfully jam packed with alphabet and imagery and personal information and religious verse that I take as emblematic of the second Great