Antique Hand-forged Iron Quilting Clamp with Big Heart (One of Two More Just Found) Lamont oklahoma I can't remember where I

I can't remember where I first saw a twined Plateau Native "corn husk" bag of this type (typically described as Nez Perce

and it gives me no end of pleasure to look at them lined up in a row

Most are marked with hand-written point values on one side

and know that these flasks were very popular with soldiers

and painted the perfect brick red and white

Antique Hand-forged Iron Quilting Clamp with Big Heart (One of Two More Just Found) Lamont oklahoma I can't remember where IThe 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