Wonderful 1833 Sandborn NH Award of Hogreeve (manager of stray swine) to John Deerborn (with Hand-drawn Pig) early trasferware This is one of a

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

very study and sound condition

that long spiral out front is like the rolled tongue of a butterfly

still very tight and in great working condition

each its own

Wonderful 1833 Sandborn NH Award of Hogreeve (manager of stray swine) to John Deerborn (with Hand-drawn Pig) early trasferware This is one of aI 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