SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Quilting Template Cut from the The Dollar Weekly Pennsylvanian Lithuanian costume It's been quite a long

It's been quite a long time since I had a notebook approaching the beauty of this one--and I've never had one with SO MANY boldly and ornately penned fraktur type headers

and some staining and crazing to the interior

(Seems not a bad thing to have an extra pair of all seeing eyes around

I found another of these 19th c Sunderland lustreware/ transferware plaques not long ago (that one reading Thou God Seest Me) and went back to my source this week to scoop up one more

SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Quilting Template Cut from the The Dollar Weekly Pennsylvanian Lithuanian costume It's been quite a longI 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