Antique Hand-sewn Silk Baby Booty Pin Cushion with Linen Bottom view from below " One guesses the Laura

" One guesses the Laura Webster who signed it was likely the recipient's mother

but at the top of the Department Store (featured on three of them) is the year 1908

Looks like a little general soiling to the skirt of her dress

I'll never pass on an older piece of Acoma pueblo pottery if I can help it

and staple binding holding all pages tightly together

Antique Hand-sewn Silk Baby Booty Pin Cushion with Linen Bottom view from below " One guesses the LauraSo many great old handmade pin cushions out there of wide variety, but I've not come across another quite like this little bootie. It's quite a lovely and tender feeling thing, and rather ethereal too, covered in silk that perhaps once was a very pale blue, but now shows white with a very faint blue tinge tinge. Stuffed with what appears to me to be raw cotton, or perhaps very soft wool, and with a linen sole. 3" l x 1 5 8" x 1 1 4". Stable and not