SOLD Mary Richardson's 1836 Jam Packed Sampler patterned native basket This one was carved of

This one was carved of Caribou bone

Green County

flying above a little dog puttering along a grassy horizon

7 3/4" tall x 5 1/2" wide x 3" deep and in excellent vintage condition

but I think nice to have in the group as it contextualizes the others

SOLD Mary Richardson's 1836 Jam Packed Sampler patterned native basket This one was carved of(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