SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Cut Newspaper Quilting Template (Tulips and Star) Charles Goodall London and are a bit unusual

and are a bit unusual in featuring both dots and numbers both

boat builders

very moving

though I have since learned that they were produced

Late 19th or very early 20th century

SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Cut Newspaper Quilting Template (Tulips and Star) Charles Goodall London and are a bit unusualI 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