Antique Premier Art Embroidery Silk, 120 Color Sample Card blanche wood Sturdy and with all pieces

Sturdy and with all pieces well attached

Staffordshire transferware child's mugs

It is initialed LR on the bottom and dated '74

One assumes she is tending to German soldiers at the hospital in the background

was developed by Fredrich Froebel

Antique Premier Art Embroidery Silk, 120 Color Sample Card blanche wood Sturdy and with all piecesI just can't resist these old thread color sample cards when I come across them yet another means of delivering the pure joy of color, and the more colors the better, 120 of them here. Plus the satisfying geometry of all those tightly pulled lines of threads, composing a grid. Pretty rose colored cloth over board cover with embossed gold lettering, too, reading simply "Premier Art Embroidery Silk." Late 19th c. very early 20th c. I believe. Closed: 8