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Lydia Wood, Newark, New Jersey, 183618One of the many fine samplers in the Theodore H. Kapnek Collection was made by Caroline Eliza Sayre in 1835 in Newark, New Jersey. It features a young man with a bird perched on his hand and a young lady presenting a long garland of linked flowers, and is published as figure 114 in A Gallery of American Samplers: The Theodore H. Kapnek Collection, by Glee Krueger(E.P. Dutton, 1978). We offer a sampler made by Lydia Wood, age 11 and also of Newark, %u201cNewjersey%u201d, a young lady who must have attended the same school as Caroline. Working just one year later, Lydia also depicted the same unusual, stylishly dressed couple and included two dogs, fruiting trees, a central basket with a pyramid of fruit and leaves, and two large butterflies. Various alphabets and an excellent border finish Lydia%u2019s delightful sampler. We are pleased to have discovered a sampler with such a close relationship with one from the Kapnek Collection and hope that this may lead to further research into the school that both Caroline and Lydia attended. The sampler was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition. It has been conservation mounted into a mahogany frame with a black bead.Sampler size: 17%u00bc%u201d x 16%u00be%u201d Frame size: 21%u201d x 20%u00bd%u201d Price: $5800.William Rodolphus Storms, Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1826Samplers made by boys are extremely rare and those very few samplers indeed made by boys tendto be English in origin. We are very pleased to have acquired this large and fine, wonderfully documented American example, worked by William Rodolphus Storms in Sandwich, Massachusetts. The inscription reads, %u201cWritten by William Rodolphus Storms at Sandwich July 21st AD 1826 aged9 years.%u201d(continued on the next page)