SOLD Mary Richardson's 1836 Jam Packed Sampler donkey and elephant arrowheads

arrowheads

which this is very similar to in manner

Late 19th/early 20th c I believe

The carving looks to have been done a good many years ago

and an especially empathetic one for a friend with writer's block

SOLD Mary Richardson's 1836 Jam Packed Sampler donkey and elephant arrowheads(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