Handwoven and Embroidered Textile by Sarah Sanborn (NH, 1732-1792) with Family Note ladies leg horseshoe My guess is that he

My guess is that he was meant to represent Uncle Sam

Wear to the floor on the interior of the house and some staining and wear to the edges of the fiberboard roof

so that when hot it would not burn one's hand when using

And then these decorative periods (red ringed in gold paint) after Underhill and Job and Painting--to match the periods after the initials L

Handwoven and Embroidered Textile by Sarah Sanborn (NH, 1732-1792) with Family Note ladies leg horseshoe My guess is that heI love finding very old things with notes about their histories carefully attached to them; we should all have such presence of mind. And the note here, written in 1936 either by grand niece Glaydis S. Little herself or someone who knew her, tells us this finely handwoven textile, embroidered with the name Sarah Sanborn, dates to the 18th century. And a search for Sarah Sanborn immediately turns up a Sarah Sanborn, born in 1732, in Hampton, Rockingham