SOLD Naive But Ambitious 19th C. Pennsylvania Child's Sampler with Letters Facing Every Way 1980s folk art I'm finding myself drawn to

I'm finding myself drawn to American eagles in all sorts of incarnations of late with a certain sense of urgency- at least in good part for fear of their extinction

such as "Doesn't this look like a map of Lower Manhattan

On heavy tin

with the slightly irregular spacing and right justification lending a sense of syncopation to the words themselves (as if Ringo Starr were being implied

9" long x 3 5/8" tall x 5/8" thick

SOLD Naive But Ambitious 19th C. Pennsylvania Child's Sampler with Letters Facing Every Way 1980s folk art I'm finding myself drawn toI'm a sucker for a super naive antique sampler, and really really love the combination of very naive and very aspirational; no small thing to attempt letters as fancy as many of these and, really, even more of a feat to manage a whole stretch of them backwards! I know from the seller I purchased this from that it came from Pennsylvania, c. mid 19th century I believe. The ground is very loosely woven, with unfinished edges but the embroidered borders