Remember Me When I am Dead, Susannah Hipple's 1848 Pennsylvania German Cross Stitch Sampler antique Bennington glazed boot and some pin marks/flea bites

and some pin marks/flea bites at up left on the "Welcome" sign

Pieces measure about 4 to 4 1/2” long

in terrific condition

plus they're super useful in the kitchen for scooping little measures of this or that

and there's a hand-written "3" on the back of that one too

Remember Me When I am Dead, Susannah Hipple's 1848 Pennsylvania German Cross Stitch Sampler antique Bennington glazed boot and some pin marks/flea bitesI tend to gravitate toward samplers executed with far less precision than this antique cross stitch, completed by a Susannah Hipple on May 16 of 1848 but it is a lovely thing (all those different varieties of flowers, in their variously patterned urns), in lovely condition, and the "Remember Me When I am Dead" sealed the deal! I also now know, from a recently sampler I bought and sold, that the central element is Pennsylvania German: the OEHBDDE is an