SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Cut Newspaper Quilting Template (Tulips and Star) Charles Goodall London This Sapolin Gold Leaf Kit

This Sapolin Gold Leaf Kit in its original wonderful turned wooden canister with dome lid

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

very moving

Truth links at bottom left

though I have since learned that they were produced

SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Cut Newspaper Quilting Template (Tulips and Star) Charles Goodall London This Sapolin Gold Leaf KitI 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