French Red and White Darning Sampler with Out of Order Alphabet tin toy phone It's a bit hard to

It's a bit hard to photograph--the dark squares on the front are a deep burgandy-brown stain

A perfect one to hang by the last of the links from a nail on the wall

The drawing is in great antique condition

and figures being pulled in both directions

17 1/4" x 12 3/4"

French Red and White Darning Sampler with Out of Order Alphabet tin toy phone It's a bit hard toI'm forever ogling antique darning samplers, especially very old Dutch ones, which are just exquisite (and very very dear.) This French one, done by a 14 year old Chantal Cheviot (signed on the edging on reverse) in the earlyish 20th century I would guess, is not one of those but I really like in other ways, including for the out of order alphabet, the reason for which I have no idea! The darning exercises on the bottom half were truly that one can