Jacquard/Doubleweave Coverlets


	Antique Quilt 4784 - 1845 Hand woven Coverlet Hand woven, home spun, vegetable indigo dyed wool and flax Coverlet with fringe - dated "1845" and signed "Caroline Oill" - double rose and tile with eagle and tree border pattern - note heart above the date in each corner - summer and winter reversible - very good condition - 64-1/2" x 93" $995

	Antique Quilt 5409 - "Jacquard" 1862 dated Jacquard hand woven wool and flax coverlet bought from Anderson family near Broken Bow, Nebraska who were selling their family heirlooms from back East. Beautiful Ralph Lauren decorating colors. Great Buy I'm passing along. Binding and edge wear and miner moth damage Very Good condition - 73" x 89" $595 ND

	Antique Quilt - 5583 1871 dated Jacquard summer/winter double weave coverlet in rust, navy and ecru home spun wool and flax homemade vegetable dyes in Pennsylvania Dutch Tulip medallion octagonal tiles set with oak leaf blocks on point and floral undulating vine border with snowflake inner and outer thin borders and good fringe on bottom from estate of Jean Arlene (1932-2009) and Bob Harpster’s Nichols Hills Estate in Oklahoma City. Outstanding colors and design! Moth damage and staining shown in closeup 74" x 91" $2950 Jean passed away in March and was survived by brother George & Lucille Harpster, Ponca City,Brian & Louise Harpster of Bentonville, AR and Val & Margaret Brewer of Tulsa. Jean’s great uncle (?) George Beidler and his 11 year old son Chase left family and friends in their hometown of Middletown, Pennsylvania on the Santa Fe train to come to the frontier army outpost of what is now Oklahoma City before the 1889 Land Run as the first Postmaster appointed by President Harrison. They bought an old Sooner Log Cabin for $5 and moved it fifty yards west of the railroad at Main and Grand. His wife had made a huge U.S. flag to fly over the first Post Office. They hammered together long boards for a table to sort the mail, which doubled as their bed. They opened for business five days before the run. Because of the avalanche of mail, they delivered the mail by calling names and dumped papers on the floor for patrons to sort through. They built a new three-story brick building at 111 N. Broadway, the finest building in town and is still standing. George was elected the City Registrar of Deeds. George served four years in the Civil War as First Lieutenant of the 106^th Illinois Infantry and was active in the Grand Army of the Republic. He died in 1921 at age 79, survived by his son Chase and daughter Bernice (Mrs. Frank M. Hughes) George’s son Chase helped him in the post office until he became a clerk in the Oklahoma City Abstract office in the early 1900’s . Because he tired of copying documents by hand, he patented the idea and process of photographing documents and founded the Rectigraph Company in 1906 which he moved to Rochester, NY. He was so suspicious of people stealing his emulsion formula for coating photo copy papers, that he carried the data in his head and insisted on mixing it himself. A bit eccentric, Chase was often mistaken for the janitor in his shabby clothes. His employees loved him because he believed all work should cease at 3:00 p.m. He himself worked seven days a week and took no vacation. He designed and built his own airplane but never got the nerve to fly it, instead just taxied it around a vacant field. He hired a pilot to fly it. He sold his business and patent three years later to Haloid Co, which is now Xerox.


	Antique Quilt 5679 Jacquard Coverlet dated 1847 probably woven by Samuel Graham (photo on page 250 of America's Quilts and Coverlets by Carleton L. Safford and Robert Bishop). Tile pattern with Bellflower border, handwoven in indigo and cream. Bold and graphic design. Some staining, moth damage and edge wear "76x90" $995

	Antique Quilt 5683 Double Weave, Summer/Winter Hand woven Coverlet, Snowflake with Pine Tree border, 1820s. Indigo with white warp. (See photo on page 232 of America's Quilts and Coverlets by Carleton L. Safford and Robert Bishop). Fringe on bottom. Hemmed top. Closeup shows worst of side edge wear. "68x81". Minor moth and edge wear. $595

	Antique Quilt 5684 Double Weave, Summer/Winter Hand woven Coverlet, Snowflake with Pine Tree border, 1820s. Indigo with white warp. (See photo on page 232 of America's Quilts and Coverlets by Carleton L. Safford and Robert Bishop). Fringe on bottom. Hemmed top. Closeup shows worst of side edge wear. "68x81". Minor moth and edge wear. $595

	Antique Quilt 5686 Early 1800s Doubleweave, summer/winter Coverlet in much coveted red, indigo and ecru. Pine tree borders surrounding snowball and true lover's knot pattern. Fringe on 3 sides with hemmed top. Closeup on summer side shows missing fringe on center seam. Minimal damage "68x92" $895