Antique c. 1880s Miniature Sampler with Out of Order Alphabet! vintage fine art print and certainly find him quite

and certainly find him quite an evocative figure

and it appears that Mickey paired with the yellow tractor is pretty rare

its rough texture

Signed on one side near the top of the tail features

Antique c. 1880s Miniature Sampler with Out of Order Alphabet! vintage fine art print and certainly find him quiteOh, a sampler made completely after my own heart, with the alphabet arranged entirely according to the whim of the girl who made it! (Why shouldn't the Q follow the G and precede the P and then the B?) This makes me completely and totally happy. Someone more knowledgable than I dates it to about 1880s, and deciphered the name of the genius who made it as G. B. Chambers, spelled out on the last line, though there is a bit of thread loss on the G and B.