Marry Me? Mary A. Amee's Mid 19th Century Perforated Paper Embroidery with Birds and Urn antique marketing where it has lived a

where it has lived a very long time

I’d think this guy must once have sat in a boat

but not my expertise

most objects I buy I list right away

making me pretty confident this was a surveyor's map

Marry Me? Mary A. Amee's Mid 19th Century Perforated Paper Embroidery with Birds and Urn antique marketing where it has lived aYou know I love a little punch paper embroidery, and this is an early and an uncommon one, with the urn and birds akin to those one would find on a full scale c. 1840s needlepoint sampler. And indeed, I would think 1840s 50s on this, the period when perforated paper was just becoming popular. The other thing I really love about this one, a coincidence I presume, is that a phonetic pronunciation of the name at top yields (more or less) Marry Me! (And