SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Quilting Template Cut from the The Dollar Weekly Pennsylvanian document Then fat old iron nails

Then fat old iron nails along the side of the near-black wood

I believe it was a cast iron foot from an old bathtub that was turned upside down

And then those great trees and islands in the background

this excellent old solid brass one bearing a perfectly rendered hourglass

SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Quilting Template Cut from the The Dollar Weekly Pennsylvanian document Then fat old iron nailsI 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