Antique Hand-forged Iron Quilting Clamp with Big Heart (One of Two More Just Found) woven pottery The one is housed in

The one is housed in a vintage medicine bottle with graduated measure in the sides

which the anchor leaning against the cross at center would suggest

with beautifully braiding of the hair into three loops

and a few stains

Antique Hand-forged Iron Quilting Clamp with Big Heart (One of Two More Just Found) woven pottery The one is housed inThe is a 19th century hand forged iron quilting clamp, with one of this sort often referred to as a "heart clamp" for the heart shaped finial on the screw. It would have been used for clamping the fabric layers of a quilt (top, batting, backing) to the rails of a frame while working it (sparing the quiltmaking from laborious pinning, etc.) Once a month I go up to midcoast Maine for a show, and once a month, for a few months now, I bring home an old