SOLD Pair of Early Religious Punch Paper Embroideries with Beading round brush with threaded handle Weighs 6 lbs

Weighs 6 lbs

then another cage-type form with a plug as the "ball" such that one can actually extend it by pulling or contact it by pushing

including a few times in fraktur style letters

river and sky actually made me think immediately of the paintings of Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry (apt as I found this en route to Kansas City) to come many years later

which are really a wonderful thing to build a collection of

SOLD Pair of Early Religious Punch Paper Embroideries with Beading round brush with threaded handle Weighs 6 lbsI pulled these two out of the same pile and both are early punch paper embroideries, so I thought it would be nice to keep them together and if one is a Bible reader, they would allow for bookmarking two very favorite passages. The one dated 1847 is unusual for incorporating metal beading for the anchor on the cross (which gives the anchor extra weight for sure!) as well as along the very bottom edge. That one is backed with white satin ribbon; the