ANTIQUE QUILT QUAKER QUILT OLD QUILT EARLY FABRIC QUILT Start Price USD 6,500.00 Current Price USD 6,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, July 01, 2008 End Time Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Location Lancaster, PA See more about 'ANTIQUE QUILT QUAKER QUILT OLD QUILT EARLY FABRIC QUILT' Description gurly46 Store WHAT A FIND!!! WE ARE SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HISTORY THAT WE DON'T KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN......AMONG THE HUNDREDS OF SIGNATURES AND DATES HAND WRITTEN WITH INK IN THE CENTER OF EACH HEXAGON, ARE INCLUDED, TO NAME BUT A FEW, CECELIA TOWER TO HER DAUGHTER MARY 1842, ELIZABETH W. GILBERT, BOSTON, JUNE 17, 1843 ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL; MARIA G. WEBER, BOSTON, JUNE 11TH, 1843; LUCRECIA GILBERT TO HER COUSIN MARY TOWER, APRIL 6, 1843; OTHER NAMES INCLUDE JANE P. JONES, 1842, ELIZABETH CLOUD, OCT. 10TH 1842, MARY BROWN, MORRISTOWN, 1842, M. MARY ANN McCONNELL, PHILADELPHIA. THIS QUILT IS ENCYCLOPEDIC IN ITS VARIETY OF NAMES, DATES, CITIES, AND WAS MADE OVER A THREE YEAR PERIOD FROM 1842 TO 1845 AND WAS MADE BY QUAKER RELATIVE AND FRIENDS FROM PHILADELPHIA TO BOSTON AND IS ONE OF THE GREAT DOCUMENTS OF EARLY QUAKER HISTORY AND TEXTILES TO HAVE SURFACED.  THIS QUILT COMES FROM CHESTER COUNTY, PENNA., DESCENDED IN A QUAKER FAMILY, IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH SOME TEARING WHICH WE TRIED TO PICTURE  BUT WHICH IS NEGLIGIBLE ON A PIECE OF THIS MONUMENTALITY. THE MEASUREMENTS ARE 126 X 103", MADE OF MAGNIFICENT EARLY FABRICS AND EARTH TONES AND MAGNIFICENT PRINTS THAT WERE FAVORED BY THE QUAKERS AT THIS TIME.  THIS QUILT IS THE ULTIMATE DOCUMENT OF EARLY QUAKER ARTS! Place a Bid!