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6 Permela Chapman, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1821 This simple but appealing marking sampler was worked by Permela Chapman, who was 10 years old in 1821. A marking sampler was generally the first project undertaken by students, as letters and numbers stitched onto household linens were the method of keeping track of the rotation of valuable household textiles. Permela also included trees, a basket of fruit and two large sets of her initials. Included in the inscription is the place name of Hanover, New Hampshire which would have been where Permela attended school; the Chapman family lived just south of Hanover in Plainfield, where Col. Levi Chapman married Permela Colburn in 1809. Their eldest child was our samplermaker, born in 1811. Worked in silk on linen, the sampler is in excellent condition, conservation mounted into a beveled curley maple frame. Sampler size: 714'' x 17\Price: $4200. Temperance Britten, England, 1782 This very unusual silk embroidered picture illustrates a scene from the early English poem entitled, \Children in the Wood.\lar ballad by the 17th century and was familiar to adults and children across the English countryside for generations. The story is one of two children who were deserted in the woods and are shown here picking berries, with four lines from the ballad worked in extremely delicate stitches which read, \lips with blackberries I Were all besmearched and dy'd I And when they saw the darksome night I They sat them down and cried.\The scene has a naive charm not commonly found with details such as the pale blue sashes to the girls' patterned dresses and the thicket of berry bushes, worked in chenille threads. The black silk used to form the lettering is almost impossibly fine. A handwritten history from the back of the frame indicates that the needleworker was Temperance Britten, age 14 in 1782. It is in excellent condition in its original gold leaf frame. Size of the oval: 714'' x 6\\12'' Price: $4800. M. Finkel e!S Daughter. M IERi cA%u00b7s LEAD! c A~IPLER AND EEDLEWORK D EALER