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cover photograph: Betsy Folger, circa 1805, Nantucket, Massachusetts We are quite pleased to offer this rare miniature Nantucket Quaker sampler which was made by Betsy Folger for her cousin Elizabeth Barker, junior. The Quaker influence is quite clear in every aspect of this friendship sampler: faultlessly rendered block lettering, black-brown silk worked onto sheer tiffany linen and the simple \ verse, \distress, and if it cannot dry up the falling tear, to sooth at least the grieving heart.\Documented Nantucket samplers are quite rare. Research reveals that Betsy Folger was born August 1795, the daughter of William Folger and Susanna Swain. She worked this sampler for her first cousin Elizabeth Barker, junior, who was born April 18, 1790, the daughter of Josiah Barker and Elizabeth Folger. Betsy's father and Elizabeth's mother were the children of Ruth Coffin and William Folger. A sampler made by Elizabeth's sister, Sally Barker, is shown in Ring's, Girlhood Embroidery, Vol. I, figure 168. This information came from the Quaker records of Nantucket and Nantucket vital records. The sampler is worked in cross and tent stitch and is in excellent condition. It has been conservation mounted into a period painted and molded frame. Sampler size: 71/4\Price: $4,600. MEMBER DDDDDDDD Copyright%u00a9 1994 by M. Finkel & Daughter, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from M. Finkel & Daughter, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.