SOLD (for JULIA) - Antique Cigar Silk Quilt with 47 Different Cigar Ribbons semiotics I found this wonderful box

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

Small cards 2 1/2" x 1 3/4"

one part chartreuse

S during the late 19th and early 20th century

from animals to plants to hobbies to architecture

SOLD (for JULIA) - Antique Cigar Silk Quilt with 47 Different Cigar Ribbons semiotics I found this wonderful boxI 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