Antique Hand-forged Iron Quilting Clamp with Big Heart (One of Two More Just Found) spoon rest and a light house in

and a light house in the near distance

as so many 19th century folk art drawings and paintings were

1869 to 1873

or at a particular object

and first interior page (pictured at end of photos) rough along right edge with some tape

Antique Hand-forged Iron Quilting Clamp with Big Heart (One of Two More Just Found) spoon rest and a light house inThe is a 19th century hand forged iron quilting clamp, with one of this sort often referred to as a "heart clamp" for the heart shaped finial on the screw. It would have been used for clamping the fabric layers of a quilt (top, batting, backing) to the rails of a frame while working it (sparing the quiltmaking from laborious pinning, etc.) Once a month I go up to midcoast Maine for a show, and once a month, for a few months now, I bring home an old