TWO NEEDLEWORK SAMPLERS, American or English, 19th century, the first worked in green, blue, yellow, light brown and pink threads in a variety of stitches with birds, flowers and animals above a wrought Latin verse and the date 1868, the whole enclosed by a meandering border of flowers and foliage; the second worked in red, yellow, blue, green and light brown threads in a variety of stitches in four horizontal registers of flowers, foliage, birds and animals, the last register with the wrought date 1839, the whole enclosed by an ivory ruffled silk border--20 1/3in. x 21¼in.; 10¾in. x 12½in. (2)