SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Cut Newspaper Quilting Template (Tulips and Star) 19th c tools and I just think really

and I just think really pretty

Both stand sturdy on their own and the smaller one balances quite nicely on the back of the larger

" A really wonderful little thing

Late 19th or very early 20th century I believe

SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Cut Newspaper Quilting Template (Tulips and Star) 19th c tools and I just think reallyI was excited to find this, and two more listed today, folded up together in a sleeve in Maine this week; I recognized them immediately as old quilting templates, but didn't take the time to open them up in the shop. When I got home I was surprised, and delighted, to find that they are quite early ones the Pennsylvania newspapers they were cut from bear the year 1856, and one of the newspapers is in German, so these are Pennsylvania German indeed. Cut