Salle Jessup, 1791 Small Alphabet Sampler with Staccato Rhythm Wilhelm Kagel He's just a little thing

He's just a little thing

The nail at the heel of the latter seems to have broken off (the head is still nailed to the sole

was one box among several featuring other shapes

with 33 pages filled (many with several specimens per page)

and while not all are great

Salle Jessup, 1791 Small Alphabet Sampler with Staccato Rhythm Wilhelm Kagel He's just a little thingI know from the seller of this one that the maker, who cross stitched her name here in 1791, was Sarah "Salle" Jessup (b. 1772) of Palmyra, NY. I've been thinking a lot lately about how young the United States is, and how close at hand, really, the American Revolution which has me feeling especially keen to hold 18th century American things in my hands. So while this is a small, humble sampler, I could not leave it behind, and I like the staccato