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Central round border (diameter 56-1/2") and smaller circle (diameter 16-1/2") with mariner's compass within; points of red, blue, cream; circle ground white. Outside large circle body of quilt blue; quilted overall in "tea cup" pattern of interlocking circles.
quilts
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quilting
silk (textile)
Needlework
Quilt
Quilt
Label: Sarah (Randall) Cobb 1840 and Sarah Cobb Pratt
Mariner's Compass
Cobb, Sarah (Maker)
Pratt, Sarah Cobb (Maker)
Possibly
Possibly
Roxbury, MA, USA; China; France
66 (W) (inches)
Gift of Marian C. Townsend
1957.13
Massachusetts (United States)
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