Lovely, Delicate Old Hand-cut Brown Paper Quilting Template pheasant late 19th century so so

late 19th century so so I believe--but I think its maker did not fully consider the need to leave unpainted areas for the foil to show and shimmer through

With a little digging I figured out that the Combination Cash store captured here in 1906 in flames was a wholesale and retail department store located at 88 Merchant's Row in downtown Rutland

but has many of years left in it

and quite an existential feeling one too--starting down into the void

It's the wonderful work of Emile Bluteau (1931-

Lovely, Delicate Old Hand-cut Brown Paper Quilting Template pheasant late 19th century so soI think this is really beautiful, with details giving a better sense of the paper, with what looks like blue watercolor around the edges, which is what must have been used to draw the outlines, free hand it would seem, before cutting it out. A few more PA quilting templates listed today but I believe this one older than those, and especially delicate. Found carefully folded up as shown pretty amazing it has survived all in one pieces, with no evident