Sweet, Small Antique Alphabet Sampler with Flamestitch Practice mid-century modern teak vase but while the plane may

but while the plane may have crashed and burned

scuffed and smudged

I have put a matte over it approximately matching the cream color of the paper and put it in a simple

There is a little bit of chipping to the wood at the very end of the blade

But even if not venturing to try to solve them

Sweet, Small Antique Alphabet Sampler with Flamestitch Practice mid-century modern teak vase but while the plane mayThere 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