Watch paper, a small circle of paper, printed with an advertisement, which aided in protecting a watch movement when inserted into a pocket watch.
This hand-trimmed paper disk is printed with an advertisement for a hatter on King Street in Lancaster. Within a foliate border is the text: "Made & Sold by FREDERICK FRICK, King Street nearly opposite the Goal (sic) LANCASTER." Written in black ink, the text is done in cursive and printed lettering. The final "K" in FREDERICK was added later, since it was deleted when originally scrivened. At the top border is a tricorner hat and at the bottom is a beaver, both signs of Frick's trade: a hatter. Written by Wendell Zercher.
Pictorial needlework, silk embroidery on linen depicting two females at the right, one in blue, the other in yellow. On the left is a tree on a hillock with some flowers at the base of the trunk. To the left of the tree is the following poem: "margaret m Grosh is my name/ marietta is my station/ heaven is my dwelling Place/ and christ is my salvation/ when i am dead and in my/ grave and all my bones ar/ rotton when this you see/ remember me or I shal/ be forgotton"
Another inscription at the bottom reads "MarGaret Grosh Sampler made in Marietta in the year of our lord/ 1830"
The piece has a rose-beige ribbon border, and is in a period mahogany veneered frame.
The sampler has dark marks over all, brown marks, especially in the upper left are and between the two female figures.
There are losses in the upper left, lower left and upper right corners of the frame and the frame has also split in the upper left and lower right corners.
