SOLD (for JULIA) - Antique Cigar Silk Quilt with 47 Different Cigar Ribbons pink stone Bisque with graphic black details

Bisque with graphic black details as well as a faint orange stain on its beak and webbed feet

This may be my favorite old hand-drawn postcard yet

I just love this drawing

meaning a twelve sided polygon

It's glazed on the interior to make it water tight

SOLD (for JULIA) - Antique Cigar Silk Quilt with 47 Different Cigar Ribbons pink stone Bisque with graphic black detailsI keep snatching these antique cigar ribbon quilts when I find them, as I think they are just stunning. How wise and resourceful of it was for women not to let cigar silks ribbons go to waste, especially brilliant gold ones like these. (Meanwhile, their fathers or husbands were cutting and carving up the cigar boxes to make tramp art frames and the like.) I love the range of silks incorporated into this one (47 different brands by my count) delivering