December 15, 2025
Tag: Confederate White House
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Quilts for a Cause
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“Gun Boat Quilt” was a term given to the raffle quilts made by southern women in order to finance the building of gun boats needed during the Civil War to protect the ports of the southern states and the shipping lanes in and out of southern harbors. This is part of the story.
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August 5, 2025 5 Comments
“Frog in your throat” is the story of a 12-card advertising set that one collector has not yet completed. She has taken nearly 50 years to find eight. The cards seem to be so rare that one appears only in years with a zero at the end.