MID-ATLANTIC PATCHWORK PIECED DOLL QUILTS, LOT OF TWO, comprising a Pennsylvania "One Patch" example in plain white and red-printed fabrics, hand- and machine-stitched, having 72-pieced center surrounded by a single border, grid quilting, front-over-back binding, two-paneled print fabric backing; and a Maryland "Nine Patch" example in print fabrics, hand-stitched, having four pattern blocks with a total of 36 pieces, "X" form quilting, applied red binding, one panel print fabric binding. Fourth quarter 19th/early 20th century. "One Patch: 11 1/2" x 14"; "Nine Patch" 13" x 13 3/8".
Published: Lakin - Folk Art For Children: Handmade in America 1760-1940, pp. 183 and 185, fig. F3.14 and F3.17.
Provenance: The Eleanor V. Lakin Collection, Boonsboro, MD.
"Nine Patch": From the Marjorie Fleigh estate, Hagerstown, MD.

"One Patch" in very good overall condition, top with some light toning, a few stains and spotting, and a few breaks to quilting thread, backing with a hole near one edge, and some light toning; "Nine Patch" in very good overall condition, top and backing with overall toning, binding with a few scattered small holes and stains.