Alphabets in Blue with Wavering Lines and Many Extra Tries, Early 19th C. Practice Sampler stairs 1940s-50s painted metal Weatherhead parts

1940s-50s painted metal Weatherhead parts box

1900 Milton Bradley Kindergarten Blocks sets designed by Friedrich Froebel

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Alphabets in Blue with Wavering Lines and Many Extra Tries, Early 19th C. Practice Sampler stairs 1940s-50s painted metal Weatherhead partsA perfect example of the sort of sampler I love one filled with personality, completely radiating the hand and humanity of the girl who made it, in this case surely quite a young one. Just look at those completely wonky wavering free hand lines separating each row of letters, and then the back to back repetition of certain letters SSS, UU, WWW, YY as if the second or third try would be the charm. And brown thread for just a few, disrupting the blue of