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An "Evening Star" patchwork quilt pieced from plain and printed cottons in shades of brown and red, the stars against ivory grounds printed with brown floral sprigs, interspersed with squares of dark brown cotton printed with small ivory and red floral sprigs, bound in dark green, with rounded corners, reversing to ivory, quilted with alternate blocks of hanging diamond and hatching--72 x 84in. (180 x 210cm.), probably early 20th century, American; and a joined wholecloth quilt printed with a "Paisley" style design against an apple green cotton ground, reversing to jade green, quilted with banding with machine stitching at the edge--72 x 88in. (180 x 220cm.), recent (2)