PA.RANDOM MOTIF PRESENTATION SAMPLER-FOLKY BRICK HOUSE!

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Having one of the best samplermaker names I have ever seen on a schoolgirl's sampler,"SAFIRE THRUSELL",the inscription also includes with her signature a most endearing presentation poem that begins with the words:"TO YOU MY DEAR MOTHER....".....not only presenting the sampler to her mother,but also promising her mother future works of industry that would make her proud! The entire inscription is stitched in a not very geometric vining cartouche,and done with a kind of primitive naivete in the lettering and word placement (including use of a symbol for the word and,as well as misspelling and squeezing of "Years" 2 lines above) that gives it an overall folky charm;" TO YOU,MY DEAR MOTHER,THIS WORK I PRESENT,AND HOPE IT WILL PLEASE YOU, AND GIVE YOU CONTENT,THEN I'LL THROUGH MY LIFE,USE MY UTMOST ENDEAVORS,TO PLEASE YOU & MERIT YOU,FUTURE KIND FAVORS...SAFIRE THRUSELL AGED 11 YEARS JULY 23,(1821?)". Safire decided to follow the common tradition of so many samplermakers,and turn her charming sampler into a "vanity sampler" by later intentionally removing the date to disguise her true age relative to possible suitors. This presentation sampler actually came with the Garber family sampler from the descendant(also listed),and is done in a Pennsylvania German random motif format;similar to the example on page 59 of the book "Samplers of read more

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