SOLD (for JULIA) - Antique Cigar Silk Quilt with 47 Different Cigar Ribbons semiotics 2 1/2" tall

2 1/2" tall

I found this wonderful box at an estate sale in MA in a modest house packed to the gills with a long lifetime's accumulation

and the Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design

7 1/4" in diameter and 1 7/8" tall

and independently

SOLD (for JULIA) - Antique Cigar Silk Quilt with 47 Different Cigar Ribbons semiotics 2 1/2" tallI 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