19th Century Hand-forged Heart Quilting Clamp hand-formed The star-like stem end it

The star-like stem end it pretty excellent looking too

To my eye quite a beautiful antique primitive box

too--so good for all seasons

on very heavy paper (the first page of the ledger

in original Pocket Signal Disk envelope

19th Century Hand-forged Heart Quilting Clamp hand-formed The star-like stem end itBefore the holidays I was up in Mid Coast Maine for a show and made a few other stops I purchased this and a couple of old handmade saws from a dealer who always has interesting things, and I'm pretty sure they all came from one tool collection as they all showed up together. (I resisted coming home with more. but never could I leave this one behind!) It is is an antique hand forged quilting clamp, which would I believe have been used on a quilting