Wonderful 1833 Sandborn NH Award of Hogreeve (manager of stray swine) to John Deerborn (with Hand-drawn Pig) early trasferware especially those blues

especially those blues

I think I would  hang it on the wall just as it is with nothing inside

I've always got an eye out for handmade figurative lace

among many others

This is one of a few small punch paper embroideries I dug out of a box in New Hampshire this week

Wonderful 1833 Sandborn NH Award of Hogreeve (manager of stray swine) to John Deerborn (with Hand-drawn Pig) early trasferware especially those bluesI love this one so much, found not far from Sandbornton, New Hampshire, where it originated nearly 200 years ago. "To John Dearborn Jr, Greeting, The good citizens of Sandbornton, confiding in your skill, integrity, industry and justice, at a town meeting duly notified and holden March 12th, 1833, duly elected you a Hogreeve and Field Driver Attest John Cary, Town Clerk, Sandbornton, March 13, 1833." A hogreeve was a Colonial New England term for a