Hand-sewn and Embroidered c. 1900 Owl Cigar Silk Quilt Andre Dimanche bird with the gold bordered "handshake"

with the gold bordered "handshake" pin at top and "all seeing eye" at center

It feels pretty iconic to me

The turned dark wood handle is nicely detailed at the ends

in good used condition

awkward appendages to be flopped left

Hand-sewn and Embroidered c. 1900 Owl Cigar Silk Quilt Andre Dimanche bird with the gold bordered "handshake"I think it was quite wise as well as resourceful of 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.) While I've seen a handful of these quilts, this is the first I've seen made almost entirely using one brand of silks; typically it seems it was the practice to trade in order to have a