- Maker
- Popelsdorf, Ester (Esther) (age 13)
- Date made
- 1809
- Origin
- Hunterdon Cnty, NJ US
- Stitches
- Cross, Eyelet, Algerian eye, Crossed corner (Rice), Satin.
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- 2 alphabets: 26 letters. Numbers 1-10. Various cross bands. Bottom third has various spot motifs including geometric and floral patterns. At the bottom a large dark green duck with its ducklings. Eleven sets of initials. (Note: Esther stitcher her sampler when she was thirteen. In 1817, when she was about twenty-one she gave birth to a son out of wedlock and went back to her sampler to add his name and birth date with black letters near the end of the verse. (Note: teacher is unknown, but her sister Mary created a similar sampler two years later under the same instructress).
- Inscription
- Easter Popelsdorf / BORN JUNE 26 AD 1796 / Ester Pupelsdorf Her Sampler Age 13 Years 1809 / AARON H TRIMM / When I am dead & in my grav / this Work of Mine my Friends / can have / AARON H TRIMM / W BORN PO ER DECEMBE R / 22 / 1817 //
- Length Without Frame
- 13 1/2"
- Width Without Frame
- 10 1/2"
- Historical Owner
- Purchased at auction.
- Owner
- Dan & Marty Campanelli
