Glorious 18th Century Crewelwork Embroidery Purse Fragment, Restored, with Conservation Report snowman and snowwoman One sees a fair number

One sees a fair number of bone dominoes sets described as "Civil War era" which are not

but with the trunk of one of them stretching through the front door

grater and pie wheel--everything a baker might need in one brilliant make do creation

I wasn't completely sure about this when I purchased it online

then chronologically

Glorious 18th Century Crewelwork Embroidery Purse Fragment, Restored, with Conservation Report snowman and snowwoman One sees a fair numberTo my eye and sensibilities, this is a gloriously beautiful thing, and among the most special textiles I've had in my possession. It is an 18th century crewelwork embroidery, wool on linen, which I believe was originally a purse. (At the end of photos is a photo of a 1986 page from Maine Antiques Digest documenting a similar crewelwork purse believed to have been owned by John Richardson of Townsend MA sold along with a small watercolor of a house for