RARE ANTIQUE WOOL COVERLET 1842 #331 S. B. MUSSELMAN BUCKS COUNTY, PENN

Description: If you love original antique coverlets this is a good one in a rare color combination of dark plum purple and green and black with a cream background. It's nice year round but especially at the holidays for your colonial decor. It has a unique design to it and is much better in person too. If you are an antique coverlet collector you know what you yearn to find in these and this one has many positive qualities but we especially love the color combo and the PENSYLVAN border spelled the olde way that the maker incorporated into this design. There is an old museum collection cloth tag on one corner but it does not say where it's from and we left it intact for provenance as it was made by the famous museum weaver S. B. Musselman dated 1842 and made for Manase Sacks. He numbered his coverlets as he went along and this one is his 331st that he finished. If you are not familiar with this talented weaver and maker please do an internet search and see his work in many books and historical museums including The National Museum Of American History and The Henry Ford in Michigan. Although this is far from perfect it is a lovely rare survivor in decent condition for it's age and a true masterpiece of his weaving talent and eye for early design. Please study the pics that were taken outside in natural daylight for a more accurate description. Again it's MUCH better in person than they show too. :) This sweet colorful treasure measures about 78x98. It has a bit of missing fringe around the edges and a few worn spots to mention for an accurate listing but we don't consider this an apology as that's to be expected of an early original 182 year old antique textile of this era. Overall it's still in good shape and the wool is still strong and it's clean other than natural age spots with no bad odors or other issues. It simply smells like an old textile and if you're an antique purist you love the scent of antique wool and handmades like we do that comes with natural aging and many years of time. This is a heavier thicker wool and good quality for it's age too. We've sold a lot of coverlets over the years but never had one in these specific colors of deep plum purple and colonial green with black and cream too. Again please study the pics and message us before buying if you have questions. If you need a good early coverlet for your antique textile profitable projects like Santas or pillows or table runners or even a trade show display etc this is a good one for those but I never had the heart to cut it up for mine and will leave that up to you if that's your purpose for buying it. There's a lot of good fabric here and lots of great repurposing could be achieved but again I only cut up antique textiles if they are totally thread bare and beyond saving any other way. From a very clean smoke free homestead so never any allergies or other apologies here with us. Please message us with any questions you have prior to bidding or buying. All sales are final with items as described. Returns are not accepted and no refunds given just as your local antique shops or malls and show venues don't either. If you choose to place a bid or buy an item you are agreeing to our terms of sale. Payment is kindly expected at the time of purchase or within 24 hours of final bid on auctions to assure fast shipping. Message us if you need other arrangements prior to sale however no holds or layaways are accepted. All payments by you are made directly through eBay's point of sale system. Any items not paid for within 24 hours will result in the sale being cancelled and items relisted with no notice to you. We offer reasonable shipping on all of our items to the lower 48 states in the USA and we will also choose which carrier and service is most appropriate for your purchase. If you are located elsewhere in the world we are more than happy to ship to your domestic broker here in the USA so they can forward your item to you their way or you can message us for other international shipping options we might have at this time. Thanks for visiting our little business here on eBay where we have enjoyed selling to many happy buyers for over 18 years now. We appreciate you very much! Many Blessings! :) **PLEASE NOTE**We sell on various sites including our own and also still wholesale to some long time buyers so this item might be listed somewhere else at the time you see it on here. If a sale occurs on one of our other sites we try to manage the listings here to coincide with our other selling venues to reflect the most accurate availability of our items. Sometimes this can cause confusion if we have to cancel a sale because it simultaneously sold elsewhere so please understand this situation and respect how we do business to be fair to everyone since there's no way to link all of our sites together right now to reflect the status of an item in real time. Thanks for your understanding!

Price: 225 USD

Location: Hamburg, Michigan

End Time: 2024-10-04T02:01:47.000Z

Shipping Cost: 22 USD