Quilt, “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul” pattern

Estate of Leon Wiggington (possibly Leon Wiggington)

About 1920

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String quilt
Silver cann, or mug, of baluster form on molded circular foot, with double C-scroll handle capped with an applied acanthus leaf as thumb rest, inscribed with on one side the monogram AS in script over L and on the handle S over A*A.
Large rectangular quilt made of cotton feed sacks in the "Six-Pointed Star" pattern, pieced of small six-pointed stars in a variety of patterns and colors between white hexagons, edged in pale green with a narrow pink binding.
Large quilt of pieced cotton-polyester fabrics, the top with a double border of gray and then pink with on a bright blue turquoise ground a grid of pink squares on an angle with large yellow M's in the center, the back of fabric of Rainbow Brite doll patterns with Rainbow Brite and her pal Lurky, edging in same Rainbow Brite fabric.