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1812 alphabet and verse sampler,

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1812 alphabet and verse sampler, four lines of letters and numbers over an eight line verse titled "The fair Ladie's wish", stitched on last line "Philena Severance", lower panel 15 window building with birds perched on roof beside a fenced garden, "1812" written in pencil bottom center, silk on linen, unframed, American, possibly Massachusetts or New Hampshire, early 19th century, 13 x 10 in. Tear to linen ground upper left and upper right, browning and fading. Provenance: The Estates of Ward and Stout Families, Bloomfield, New Jersey 1850 U.S. Census lists a Philena Severance born about 1788, living in Franklin, Massachusetts.

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