Two American Silk Needlework Samplers

alphabet arabic numerals aged years worked blue green white threads rows second size inscription pious verse silk sight lane interspersed 1824 circling improve divide brown 1831 life 10-1/2 moulton staebner enclosing sampler massachusetts abigail hall happy wrought elder worcester youth blooming soon thread depends 19-3/4 reverse luoto needlework half sutton 50.2 margaret american maid object warm resolve useful hours successive glide book nedle quilt lucy flourish decay just brittle things fast encircling 43.2 15-1/2 florence handy joanne gary 19th convey 26.7 christine samplers century rest 39.3 inscribed grandmother great-grandmother great-great-grandmother mother nellie