Miniature Sampler, C. Brick, Milltown, Pennsylvania, 1845

Miniature samplers are uniquely appealing to collectors and excellent examples such as this one have become increasingly difficult to find. Due to their small size, these little samplers rarely contain more than an alphabet and perhaps a couple of little spot motifs.  Rarely do they contain the volume of information this one does. The building pictured is most likely the Convent School that Catharine attended in Milltown, Pennsylvania.  

Though she signed her sampler C. Brick, her first name was Catharine and she was born in 1837 to Lewis and Charlotte Brick.  She was the oldest of 4 children born to the couple who were Prussian immigrants who migrated to Pennsylvania where Lewis worked in the mines of Schuylkill County which is located in the heart of the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania.  Catharine tells us that she completed this work at the Convent N. School on April 30, 1845 when when was 8 years old.

Worked in silk on linen the sampler the sampler is in excellent condition and is conservation mounted on acid free board and framed in a figured maple veneer frame with an ebony bead. Size is 5" x 8" (sight) and 8-1/2 x 11-1/2" framed.
 
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