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Fig. 6.—Portion of Sampler of Cut and Embroidered Work.
17th Century.
The late Mrs Head.
The forms which the lettering takes will probably be found to be one of the best guides to the age of the early samplers, and on this ground [Fig. 6], with its peculiar G and its reversed P for a Q, may be earlier than 1650, although the stags and the pear-shaped ornament beneath them are closely allied to those in [Plate III.], dated 1648.
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Fig. 7.—Samplers in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Dated 1643, 1667, and 1696.
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