Sweet, Small Antique Alphabet Sampler with Flamestitch Practice mid-century modern teak vase scuffed and smudged

scuffed and smudged

and perhaps that is the head of a fish next to it

Raising the status of American stoneware

but while the plane may have crashed and burned

heart shaped nose

Sweet, Small Antique Alphabet Sampler with Flamestitch Practice mid-century modern teak vase scuffed and smudgedThere are so many keen sampler dealers and collectors out there that for the most part I leave them alone. But, occasionally I find one that calls to me like an out of order alphabet I had a few months ago, and this one, with its patch of colorful flame stitching at bottom right, at odds with the careful linearity of the rest, and like a little abstract explosion of energy. Certainly this was just a little practice sampler and so here she was (a girl