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A beautiful Swedish Victorian sampler from 1878. The date, "1878" is noted in the middle of the sampler in red. There are letters of the alphabet A-Z and a few extra Swedish characters. On the sampler there are initials both on the right and left side of the sampler. On the bottom middle part of the sampler there are big initials "EB". There is a light blue border with a more vivid red border on the inside. There is a decoration of a crown, red and yellow flower, cross shaped items and a very nice black brown and white cat sitting on a pillow. Cats are extremely rare to find on such old samplers. This sampler is in it's ORIGINAL Victorian black frame. I have not attempted to take it out of it's original frame. I will leave this up to the buyer. The sampler has the decorations done in what I think is wool thread. The backing is probably linen. The black frame is made of wood and there is an circle shaped ring to hang it on in the back. The glass has a few bubbles in it which is typical of old glass from the 19th century (1800's)

Size: The frame is about 15.2 wide by 14.2 inches in height. The visible part of the sampler is about 13.2 by 12.1 inches.
Condition: All the decoration has survived the years pretty well. There is some slight fading in places to the lighter colored decoration. There is one loose area that looks like the threads have separated a bit. Not quite a hole but more a separation of the threads which is in the upper top beyond the outer blue border. If the sampler is reframed this could be covered. 
Price: $200.00 USD  (email for shipping info or for other currencies).