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12 Hornbook, St. Pauls Infant School, England, 1729 %u2022 y . . ' While not a sampler or needlework of any form, we offer this outstanding brass hornbook which was used in the early 18th century at the St. Pauls Infant School, known to have been a part of the schools of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Hornbooks were used as early as 1400 to teach the alphabet to very young children and many were made with a printed paper mounted onto a paddle and a sheet of translucent horn covering and protecting the paper. This hornbook is brass with paint and is nearly identical to one in the collection of the Boston Public Library. A well-regarded early collector of samplers, George A. Plimpton of New York (1855-1936), was also an avid collector of hornbooks and owned the largest collection in America, which he donated to Columbia University. In a 1927 interview, Mr. Plimpton spoke about the hornbook we offer and indicated that this was an unusual example; another St. Pauls Infant School hornbook, made of copper, was in his collection at the time. Size: 5%\Price: $6800 Buttonhole Sampler, initialed ACP, Germany, 1791 This is a fine little sampler which demonstrates the art of making buttonholes, which, along with darning, was one of the more practical skills taught to samplermakers. Whitework decoration extends down in two vertical rows with an assortment of further whitework surrounding the eight buttonholes. Three stylized floral devices along with the maker's monogram and the date are toped with a coronet, all worked in very tight cross-stitches. Part of the collection of Emma-Henriette Schiff von Suvero (1873-1939), this sampler was placed in the collection of the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Vienna from 1939 until 2003. The samplers were recently restituted to the rightful heirs. Worked in silk on linen, the sampler is in excellent condition and has been conservation mounted into a molded and painted frame. Sampler size: 714'' x 5\Price: $2800. M. Finkel~ Daughter. MIERicA's LEAD I c sMIPLER AND NEEDLEwoRK DEALER