Two American Needlework Samplers The first signed Care Hemphill dated March 1830 The first worked in shades of brown, beige, blue and green silk thread on a linen ground with horizontal rows of the alphabet above a field of random flowering plants and baskets of flowers enclosing a reserve with two doves above the inscription Care Hemphill/March 1830, the secend worked in shades of green, red, blue, beige, yellow and brown silk thread on a linen ground with horizontal rows of Arabic numerals, the alphabet, crowns, tree of life, flowers, ladder and children jumping rope all within a saw tooth border. Each framed.* Each with staining fading and losses thread, the first with holes and repairs The fact, 18 x 18in the second 19.875 x 12.25in see illustration