Hand-sewn and Embroidered c. 1900 Owl Cigar Silk Quilt facto knife I really like the roughness

I really like the roughness of the carving

with a few small scrapes to the orange lacquer on the exterior and one crack to the black lacquer at the edge of one interior tray (see detailed photos)

--cries the little girl in this charming hand-painted watercolor postcard

I just adore the painted water-skiing woman on this vintage handkerchief box

Hand-sewn and Embroidered c. 1900 Owl Cigar Silk Quilt facto knife I really like the roughnessI 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