Large c. 1907 Pin Cushion with Embroidered Grid of Sewing Tools kit doll is just lovely

is just lovely

but I loved it way way too much to leave it behind

is done on a piece of stationary from the Benjamin Franklin Hotel in Philadelphia

I haven't find another like this for sale out there anywhere--because  really who would ever part with one

Large c. 1907 Pin Cushion with Embroidered Grid of Sewing Tools kit doll is just lovelyNo way could I resist this large folk art pin cushion, which combines many of my favorite things: grids, and words, and lists, and embroidery, and family names and, of course, is a pin cushion, too. It appears to have been made in 1907, with the name Clement written on the embroidered grid running around the sides just after that date, and then with more names added over time, terminating in 1942 (though perhaps 1907 was the birth year of the maker,