Antique Hand-forged Iron Quilting Clamp with Big Heart (One of Two More Just Found) spoon rest and first interior page (pictured

and first interior page (pictured at end of photos) rough along right edge with some tape

as so many 19th century folk art drawings and paintings were

removed from its original context (at a bank

8 3/4" long x 5 15/16" wide x 1 1/8" deep

and a light house in the near distance

Antique Hand-forged Iron Quilting Clamp with Big Heart (One of Two More Just Found) spoon rest and first interior page (picturedThe is a 19th century hand forged iron quilting clamp, with one of this sort often referred to as a "heart clamp" for the heart shaped finial on the screw. It would have been used for clamping the fabric layers of a quilt (top, batting, backing) to the rails of a frame while working it (sparing the quiltmaking from laborious pinning, etc.) Once a month I go up to midcoast Maine for a show, and once a month, for a few months now, I bring home an old