RG2 Cigar Silk Table Topper
c.1885
23.5 x 23.5 inches + 4" cigar silk fringe all around
Believed to have been created in Massachusetts
$495

Complete original condition. Machine pieced, ready to hang or use as a decorative centerpiece for your table. In the 1880s most men who smoked, smoked cigars, which came in groups of 4-8, tied up with a cigar silk ribbon. Their industrious and creative wives would make wonderful quilts from these ribbons as Victorian embellishment.