SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Quilting Template Cut from the The Dollar Weekly Pennsylvanian document This is the second deck

This is the second deck of these Teuila fortune telling cards I've had--I've been keeping a watch out for them because I think they are really fabulous

I have a tendency to talk to inanimate objects

Then fat old iron nails along the side of the near-black wood

I believe it was a cast iron foot from an old bathtub that was turned upside down

McKinney grew up in Russia

SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Quilting Template Cut from the The Dollar Weekly Pennsylvanian document This is the second deckI 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