Antique Schoolgirl Crocheted Lace on Colorful Cloth Sampler Book pointing sign or maybe they were sides

or maybe they were sides of a garden planter

to the leafy trees

The ball in cage at the end measures 5 1/2" long and each link measures about 7/8" long

A bit faded with time in the very best way

I really like the graphic quality of the big red EGLANTINE across one side of this old wooden box

Antique Schoolgirl Crocheted Lace on Colorful Cloth Sampler Book pointing sign or maybe they were sidesI've become really enamored of all sorts of schoolgirl samplers needlework alphabet samplers, sure, but more so the less common to find woven and folded paper samplers, and darning samplers, and crochet samplers like this one. And this little humbly sewn together book, composed of richly colored cut cotton cloth and filled with dozens of little crocheted bits, is about the most charming thing I can imagine, just teeming with the love and care of many