~ GROVER CLEVELAND CRAZY QUILT-- HISTORICAL RIBBONS ~ Start Price USD 14,900.00 Current Price USD 14,900.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, September 23, 2008 End Time Thursday, October 23, 2008 Location Westport, Connecticut See more about ' ~ GROVER CLEVELAND CRAZY QUILT-- HISTORICAL RIBBONS ~ ' Description A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY A TRUE FEAST FOR THE EYES   This Crazy Quilt is simply amazing and breathtaking. It's highly embellished with political ribbons in a variety of rich Jewel toned fabrics including silks, satins, and velvets and a gorgeous Crochet border. It contains elaborate stitch work and hand-embroidery. There are initials, Grover Cleveland for President, Maidens, Portrait paintings, horseshoes, Augustus for City Judge Van Wick, Parasols, Horse shoes, Brass rooster and other metal embellishments, Spiders and webs, Moon and stars, Playing cards, Artists palette, Hand painted flowers and much much more. This quilt is completely finished and  NOT  just a top. The backing is a red and white silk stripe reminiscent of our flag.  More photos upon request. The quilt is of New York origin and was made as a fund raiser to elect GROVER CLEVELAND FOR PRESIDENT.  IT MEASURES  86 x86   THE POLITICAL RIBBONS ALONE HAVE SIGNIFICANT WORTH.  HERE IS ONE RIBBON THAT WAS BID UP TO $2,600 BUT DID NOT MEET THE RESERVE  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230289261195&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.ebay.com%3A80%2F%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm38%26_nkw%3D230289261195%26_sacat%3DSee-All-Categories%26SayLink004%3DSearch%26_fvi%3D1   IT IS UNQUESTIONABLY MUSEUM QUALITY    THERE ARE WELL OVER 1000 PIECES AND ONLY FOUR OR FIVE ARE SHATTERED TO A VARYING DEGREE  PAYPAL POSSIBLE PLEASE ASK BEFORE BIDDING  if you have questions email tv1710@sbcglobal.net for quicker response   The Democratic Rooster  PICTURED IN BRASS originated in Greenfield during the presidential campaign of 1840. Joseph Chapman, local orator and operator of the tavern which later became the Gooding Tavern, was the Democratic candidate for Representative. He was exhorted by his friends to "crow, Chapman, crow" and the Rooster became a symbol of the party. In 1853, the first steam railroad was completed by the Indiana Central Railroad at the south edge of the city. Later this railroad became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad System, later the Penn-Central. The tracks were removed in the 1980’s. The greatest single period of growth began 1887 when natural gas was discovered in the area. Greenfield was a boomtown for 20 years, with the founding of manufacturing plants and other industries. The present courthouse, the county’s fourth, was completed in 1897. In some earlier historical publications "Hancock County has been described as within the genius belt of Indiana." It has been said, "here oratory flourishes and poetry is indigenous to the soil." Among the "greats" of the city were James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet; two famous artists, Will Vawter and Dick Black; Earl K. Smith, composer of ‘Down by the Old Mill Stream’ and Rev. Charles O’Donnell who later became president of Notre Dame. A statue of James Whitcomb Riley, which stands in front of the Courthouse, was erected in 1918. It was purchased with money donated by school children from all over the United States. Each year during the Riley Festival celebration of Riley’s birthday, (October 7), the city’s school children parade to the statue to place flowers around it. The poet James Whitcomb Riley, in a letter to Helen Downing, describes Greenfield "My home and our home and your parents home-and the best home outside heaven.  ========================================================================== Grover Cleveland was  the First Democrat elected after the Civil War. Cleveland was the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later. One of nine children of a Presbyterian minister, Cleveland was born in New Jersey in 1837. He was raised in upstate New York. As a lawyer in Buffalo, he became notable for his single-minded concentration upon whatever task faced him. At 44, he emerged into a political prominence that carried him to the White House in three years. Running as a reformer, he was elected Mayor of Buffalo in 1881, and later, Governor of New York. Cleveland won the Presidency with the combined support of Democrats and reform Republicans, the "Mugwumps," who disliked the record of his opponent James G. Blaine of Maine. A bachelor, Cleveland was ill at ease at first with all the comforts of the White House. "I must go to dinner," he wrote a friend, "but I wish it was to eat a pickled herring a Swiss cheese and a chop at Louis' instead of the French stuff I shall find." In June 1886 Cleveland married 21-year-old Frances Folsom; he was the only President married in the White House. Cleveland vigorously pursued a policy barring special favors to any economic group. Vetoing a bill to appropriate $10,000 to distribute seed grain among drought-stricken farmers in Texas, he wrote: "Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character. . . . " He also vetoed many private pension bills to Civil War veterans whose claims were fraudulent. When Congress, pressured by the Grand Army of the Republic, passed a bill granting pensions for disabilities not caused by military service, Cleveland vetoed it, too. He angered the railroads by ordering an investigation of western lands they held by Government grant. He forced them to return 81,000,000 acres. He also signed the Interstate Commerce Act, the first law attempting Federal regulation of the railroads. In December 1887 he called on Congress to reduce high protective tariffs. Told that he had given Republicans an effective issue for the campaign of 1888, he retorted, "What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?" But Cleveland was defeated in 1888; although he won a larger popular majority than the Republican candidate Benjamin Harrison, he received fewer electoral votes. Elected again in 1892, Cleveland faced an acute depression. He dealt directly with the Treasury crisis rather than with business failures, farm mortgage foreclosures, and unemployment. He obtained repeal of the mildly inflationary Sherman Silver Purchase Act and, with the aid of Wall Street, maintained the Treasury's gold reserve. When railroad strikers in Chicago violated an injunction, Cleveland sent Federal troops to enforce it. "If it takes the entire army and navy of the United States to deliver a post card in Chicago," he thundered, "that card will be delivered." Cleveland's blunt treatment of the railroad strikers stirred the pride of many Americans. So did the vigorous way in which he forced Great Britain to accept arbitration of a disputed boundary in Venezuela. But his policies during the depression were generally unpopular. His party deserted him and nominated William Jennings Bryan in 1896. After leaving the White House, Cleveland lived in retirement in Princeton, New Jersey. He died in 1908 Crazy quilts are enjoying a comeback recently but it is nothing compared to the amazing popularity they enjoyed when they were first all the rage in the late Victorian era! The 1880"s were the high point of Crazy quilt making, though the style was born just before that and continues to this day. At one time many people attributed the beginnings of the crazy quilt to as early as the arrival of the colonists to the new world, it's advent was supposed to have risen out of the scarcity of fabric and the use of every little scrap. This theory is no longer considered to be likely and it is almost certain that the Crazy Quilt owes its start to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, held in Philadelphia. It was at this exhibition that American women were first exposed to the arts and culture of Japan. For the first time they saw a style that was not strictly symmetrical, they saw beautiful fans and opulent embroidery. The Crazy Quilt came from these origins. It was just at this time that there was an increased supply of reasonably priced silk, bringing the silk crazy quilt into the sphere of the middle class. Crazy quilts are not, in fact, quilts. They were intended as parlor throws or piano scarves. They typically have no batting or filler and are tacked invisibly, not quilted. These spectacular quilts took a long time to make, decades not being unusual. Scraps of dress silks, wedding gowns, silk souvenirs, cigar bands and more found their way into crazy quilts. When the foundation was complete the embellishment began, and often did not end until the maker's death! The embellishments included elaborate embroidery, beads even painted designs. During the high point of the rage patterns for everything from the supposedly random foundations to the embroidered and painted designs were printed in the ladies magazines of the day. A crazy quilt was not just a thing of beauty but a status symbol. A Crazy Quilt required more than just material, it required a huge amount of leisure time, and leisure time was something only found in a prosperous household. If a man could invite associates and neighbors into his home and it contained visible signs of his wife's leisure activities it was a sure sign of his success and prosperity. He was able to provide her with both household help and luxurious materials, her accomplishments reflected well on him. Many crazy quilts survive to this day, they were treasured objects then and remain so today. Because of their freewheeling nature some are not as lovely as others but all have great charm and some of the most beautiful of all quilts are Crazy Quilts. </table Place a Bid!