Marry Me? Mary A. Amee's Mid 19th Century Perforated Paper Embroidery with Birds and Urn antique marketing but not my expertise

but not my expertise

pencil on ruled paper

making me pretty confident this was a surveyor's map

)  Wonderfully expressive

Marry Me? Mary A. Amee's Mid 19th Century Perforated Paper Embroidery with Birds and Urn antique marketing but not my expertiseYou 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