This is a highly collectable antique textile.
It is a genuine antique sampler - and is being sold as such with all your consumer rights in place.
It is one of two smaller antique samplers in my Iconic Edinburgh online store - both dating to the 19th century.
This one is now over 180 years old - and for its age, it is certainly in fine antique condition.
It is of a smaller size - and the cotton is in good condition with no holes - it has discoloured naturally over the last two centuries and the textile has a beige colour commensurate with age. The colours of the threads are still nice and bright - predominantly in reds and greens. The design of the sampler and the type of textile used to stitch the letters onto are traditional ones.
This sampler has been carefully embroidered by a little Scots girl called Cecilia Gibson Thomson in 1839. She was only 6 years old when she made it.
It is quite a basic work - confined mainly to alphabet letters, and numerals and the name and age of the maker.
Sadly - the little girl who made this does not seem to have survived the rigours of Victorian childhood. There is a gravestone in the Canongate Church in Holyrood, Edinburgh for a girl of this name saying that she passed away on 1 June 1841.
Dimensions: 24 x x 20 cm.
It is sold unframed - which makes it easy for you to fully check the condition, and allows you to see all the neat little knots in the thread where the new lengths of thread were added during the stitching process - it looks nice and neat at the back - as to the front (see my last photograph).
This one came to me with the even smaller one made by Cecilia's sister- and although it has no place name stitched on it - have no doubts that it is probably Scottish in origin.
It will look fabulous on display in a period Georgian or early 1830s interior - with a window mount framing the textile and a simple oak frame.
Can be sent to the States etc. please inquire.