Antique Embroidered 1818 Alphabet Sampler, with Attribution, in Adirondack Frame greenamerican art pottery This box is wonderfully worn

This box is wonderfully worn and beaten up

what makes this compelling is the charring to the lower left corner

I'd guess this beauty dates to the 1930s-40s or so

Kings Township

The vase is overall in very good condition

Antique Embroidered 1818 Alphabet Sampler, with Attribution, in Adirondack Frame greenamerican art pottery This box is wonderfully wornThere is information taped to the back of this frame attributing this sampler to "Grandma" (Bonere it looks to me, but a bit hard to read) and dating it to 1818, when she was 8 years old. It is in such pristine condition it looks as if it might have been done yesterday, but the absence of the J and U, the fraktur style lettering of the first half (through to the M, then changing style with the N) and the round hand of the second half all seem right to