Antique Pennsylvania Quilting Template, Professionally Framed, with Nice Hand-stitched Mend hand-painted vesta filled with what looks like

filled with what looks like a large philadendron leaf

but I rather think all the better for it

when it was sold to Milton Bradley) was a New York publishing firm that pioneered color printing technologies in children's books

and a sweet round of wood for the base

Antique Pennsylvania Quilting Template, Professionally Framed, with Nice Hand-stitched Mend hand-painted vesta filled with what looks like(Forgive my poor photos.) Another one found in Lancaster Country, and very much of the place. I've long been admiring old hand cut quilting templates but have waited for just the right one to emerge, which to my eye this one is! Cut of pale blue cardboard, even better for its hand stitched mend, with lovely four sided form and eight point star cut out of the center. Strongly graphic but also very folky and tender feeling, well used and perfectly aged,