Wonderful Earlier 19th Century Homespun Wool Petit Point Needlepoint Mat with Fluffed Border clay turtle or whether the magazine was

or whether the magazine was taken on a hunting trip for evening reading and the deer drawn from life

and then this great fence around them and two great brown ducks marching along below

This and one other today by the same maker--the last of a handful I've had by that unknown person

a ship in a bottle the making of which I can completely understand

and I believe of

Wonderful Earlier 19th Century Homespun Wool Petit Point Needlepoint Mat with Fluffed Border clay turtle or whether the magazine wasI've had one other 19th century needlepoint mat of a similar ilk to this one, with this same sort of fluffy edge; I think there may be a specific name for the type, but I don't know it! Earlyish 19th century New England I believe, hand dyed wool on handwoven linen cotton (one can glimpse it along the edge on reverse) finished with handwoven wool cloth backing, which shows a patch of loss but is stable. And that squirrel munching away on those berries