SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Cut Newspaper Quilting Template (Tulips and Star) Charles Goodall London Late 19th or very early

Late 19th or very early 20th century

boat builders

though I have since learned that they were produced

as found: 17 1/2" x 15 1/2"

very moving

SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Cut Newspaper Quilting Template (Tulips and Star) Charles Goodall London Late 19th or very earlyI 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