51st Annual Delaware Show

— 99 — EARLE D. VANDEKAR OF KNIGHTSBRIDGE, INC. By appointment in Manhattan & White Plains, NY P.O. Box 55, Maryknoll, NY 10545 212.308.2022 • info@vandekar.com www.vandekar.com BOOTH 49 A Fine American Folk Art Cigar Silk Quilt Silk bands like these were used to wrap bunches of cigars. Beginning in the Victorian period, women saved them in order that they may be pieced together into decorative pillow tops, table covers, and quilts, usually in some variation of the log cabin quilt pattern. Custom cigar labels and bands were not only some of the first color advertising, but that they were also one of the earliest forms of what we now know as modern advertising. Dimensions: 46¾ x 47 inches